Jenkins 2 ─ Up and Running; Evolve Your Deployment Pipeline for Next Generation Automation

Over the past decade, Jenkins has served as the definitive tool for creating continuous delivery pipelines. Now, Jenkins 2 takes this open source automation server to a new level. This practical guide shows you how the latest features enable you to define pipelines-as-code, make pipelines restartable and recoverable, and add automatic processing for GitHub branches and organizations. You’ll also learn Jenkins’ improved support for containerization through Docker.

If you’re familiar with Jenkins, and want to take advantage of the new technologies to transform your legacy pipelines, this book covers recent advances in this hugely popular open-source tool. You’ll also learn new Jenkins features on the way, including declarative pipelines and the Blue Ocean interface.

Brent Laster is a global trainer, author and speaker on open-source technologies as well as a senior R&D manager at a top technology company. He has been involved in the software industry for over 25 years, holding various technical and management positions. Brent has always tried to make time to learn and develop both technical and leadership skills and share them with others and believes that regardless of the topic or technology, there’s no substitute for the excitement and sense of potential that come from providing others with the knowledge they need to help them accomplish their goals.