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Implementing Automated Deployment Through a Jenkins Pipeline

Jenkins Pipeline is a powerful tool for implementing continuous delivery. In order to fully utilize Jenkins Pipeline, you will need to implement an automated deployment. This learning activity will guide you through the process of deploying code as part of a Jenkins pipeline. After completing this exercise, you will have a basic familarity with what automated deployment using Jenkins Pipeline looks like.

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Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

1h 30m

Published

Oct 01, 2018

Challenge

Deploy the App to the Staging Server Via the Jenkins Pipeline
1. Configure the staging and production servers for the Publish Over SSH plugin.
2. Add a credential to Jenkins called webserver_login to allow Jenkins to authenticate with the web servers. The user has already been created on the web servers with the username deploy and the password jenkins.
3. Create a Multibranch Pipeline project called train schedule and set it up to build from your GitHub fork.
4. Create a stage in the Jenkinsfile to deploy the app to the staging server. For an example, check the DeployToStaging stage in the sample solution Jenkinsfile.
5. Run the build to deploy to the staging server.
Challenge

Deploy the App to the Production Server Via the Jenkins Pipeline
1. Create a stage to deploy to production after awaiting user input. For an example, check the DeployToProduction stage in the sample solution Jenkinsfile.
2. Run the build.
3. Approve the deployment to production.

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