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Jenkins 2: Up and Running: Evolve Your Deployment Pipeline for Next Generation Automation 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Brent Laster (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Design, implement, and execute continuous delivery pipelines with a level of flexibility, control, and ease of maintenance that was not possible with Jenkins before. With this practical book, build administrators, developers, testers, and other professionals will learn how the features in Jenkins 2 let you define pipelines as code, leverage integration with other key technologies, and create automated, reliable pipelines to simplify and accelerate your DevOps environments.

Author Brent Laster shows you how Jenkins 2 is significantly different from the more traditional, web-only versions of this popular open source automation platform. If you’re familiar with Jenkins and want to take advantage of the new technologies to transform your legacy pipelines or build new modern, automated continuous delivery environments, this is your book.

  • Create continuous delivery pipelines as code with the Jenkins domain-specific language
  • Get practical guidance on how to migrate existing jobs and pipelines
  • Harness best practices and new methods for controlling access and security
  • Explore the structure, implementation, and use of shared pipeline libraries
  • Learn the differences between declarative syntax and scripted syntax
  • Leverage new and existing project types in Jenkins
  • Understand and use the new Blue Ocean graphical interface
  • Take advantage of the capabilities of the underlying OS in your pipeline
  • Integrate analysis tools, artifact management, and containers
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    O'Reilly Media
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    May 2, 2018
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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.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07CT6XV2D
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (May 2, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 2, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 51123 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 608 pages
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Brian P
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2018
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Have been using Jenkins for years but this book is an easy read and really helps to illustrate how you can get a little bit more out of the platform. Not much detail on the operations and maintenance ( that I've seen yet ) but as a user/consumer of the software it is extremely helpful. I do believe that there should be a 'sister book' or maybe a few chapters added for the operations perspective to deal with system logging, troubleshooting and maybe a bit of architectural design theory on how to deal with different types of Jenkins Infrastructure models.
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Ryan Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference for New and Veteran Users Alike
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2018
Whether you have earned your stripes as a Hudson Administrator, or are new to the Jenkins realm, this book is an incredibly valuable addition to your collection. The future of Jenkins is all about Declarative Pipeline. The author does an excellent job of explaining the concepts in-depth, whether you come to the table with very little Groovy knowledge and/or are new to the concept of pipelines-as-code.

Very often, newcomers to the Jenkins space get pigeon-holed into archaic methods of project builds. I'll agree that tried and trued methods should not be shunned away lightly, but how does your project scale? How do you onboard three new teams of developers and 30 new repositories into your lifecycle? Now you've got 500 build jobs with different plug-in dependencies, Java versions, OS dependencies....the nightmare begins!! This book should be a pre-requisite for anyone starting the journey! It does a great job of piecing the architecture together in a manner that allows the reader to step back and look at an automation solution as a whole.

Focus time into pipeline-as-code methodology, explore the JenkinsFile concepts and work smarter, not harder! I should expect most would embrace this revolutionary concept in todays 80 hour work-week.

The unfortunate downside to this publishing are the smattering of low-resolution images throughout the book. I'd say it is about 50/50 but they are really there are reference points to what is being discussed in the text. I don't find it to be a deal-breaker for me when going through the book. I found there are very few things you wouldn't be able to accomplish with the examples Brent has provided here.

If you've read Jenkins: The Definitive Guide, you'll know the content there is 7+ years old and mostly deprecated. Jenkins 2: Up and Running covers concepts that are hot off the presses, and gives you a great starting point to start your journey with CI/CD Automation and Jenkins!
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Jorge Villavicencio
5.0 out of 5 stars A must have
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2022
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Every devops technical practitioner should read this book.
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Joe Win
5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best Jenkins book I have ever read ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2018
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This is the best Jenkins book I have ever read. I am an experienced Jenkins 2 Pipeline user and still found the book is helpful. I got some tricks and reminders from the book on improving my existing pipelines.
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Joseph
1.0 out of 5 stars Worst print jobs out of O'reilly I ever received
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2019
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I know the content of this book will be great but the frustration of not being able to see the screenshots has it going straight to my back up books on the topic. I planned on reading this cover to cover, not anymore.
90% of the screenshots are unreadable.
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Karen A. Taggart
4.0 out of 5 stars Great resource for all levels
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2018
There are so many things this book does well! I am still a beginner when it comes to executing pipelines in Jenkins, so having this comprehensive resource is beyond helpful. Beyond just being a technical resource, the book does a great job in the beginning explaining the history and evolution of Jenkins and how/why Jenkins 2 is different. I am still wrapping my head around how Freestyle is different from Pipeline is different from Declarative and the advantages/disadvantages to each method, so I benefited greatly from Laster's background and examples of all each of these. While Laster says the book may not be the type of book you want to read from start to finish, but rather used as a reference, I am finding it incredibly readable. It has already improved my knowledge of Jenkins and I know it will continue to be a primary resource as I work to improve my abilities.

I agree with the one reviewer who mentioned that the screenshots are difficult to see due to low contrast, but I haven't found that to interfere too much with my ability to consumer the information presented. If you are a Jenkins user in any way, or are wondering what Jenkins has the ability to do to see how it might be able to help you automate your software delivery process, I highly recommend this book.
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Joachim H.
5.0 out of 5 stars Best reference book about Jenkins - provides a lot of historical background and get up to speed.
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2019
I almost didn't approach this book because of the bad reviews.
Please note that the reviews relate mostly to bad quality of the graphics in the book.
While this may be true in the printed edition of the book, the online edition has very acceptable picture quality.
In the meantime, I found it to be the best resource available online that is comprehensible and provides design patterns for how to use Jenkins properly.
I liked particularly the approach explaining the history of Jenkins and the transition from an "old model" to a "new model".
I would maybe complement this book by a quick introduction to the Groovy language constructs (Making Java Groovy), which Jenkins syntax bases heavily upon.
It helps make sense of a lot of things of Jenkins internals and IMHO is a very good start to dive deeper !
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Heather G
2.0 out of 5 stars Graphics are unreadable
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2019
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While the book does seem to be an in depth look at Jenkins 2, the associated graphics and screen shots are printed so lightly they are unreadable or they are so small you would need a magnifying glass to see them. Very disappointing for an O'Reilly book. Without being able reference the examples I decided the book wasn't worth it.
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JOSE A VARGAS MONTES DE O
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy bueno
Reviewed in Mexico on January 29, 2024
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Me dio una visión más amplia de lo que es Jenkins, a pesar de que es el año 2024, hay algunas cosas que trataré de implementar, ojalá sacará una versión más reciente de Jenkins.
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Cliente Amazon
1.0 out of 5 stars Prescindible
Reviewed in Spain on March 11, 2019
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Totalmente prescindible
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Kai Hofmann
4.0 out of 5 stars Gute Einführung in Pipelines
Reviewed in Germany on March 15, 2019
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Das Buch ist eine gute Einführung in Jenkins 2 Pipelines. Mir fehlt in der Kindle-Ausgabe jedoch ein Inhaltsverzeichnis. Weiterhin behandelt das Buch viele einzelne Konzepte, vergisst hierbei jedoch eine komplette Pipeline für ein Projekt als übergreifendes Beispiel zu konstruieren. Somit bleiben leider globale Fragen zu einer guten Pipeline-Struktur offen.
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Armando
3.0 out of 5 stars Bastante regular
Reviewed in Mexico on June 27, 2020
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Si lo que buscas es aprender Jenkins desde cero este NO es tu libro. Lo considero que es d win nivel intermedio a avanzado. No me gusto para nada los pantallazos para ilustrar algunos ejemplos, son de mala calidad y poco legibles.
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S. D. Hewitt
3.0 out of 5 stars Less useful if you don't know Jenkins 1
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2019
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This is focussed on migrating from Jenkins 1 to Jenkins 2. This just adds confusion if you do not know Jenkins 1 in the first place.
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