Jenkins is the way to integrate the thoughts
Continuous Delivery with Jenkins Pipelines
One-day deployments with builds taking only minutes, Jenkins makes auto R\&D easy.
Background: We were using a legacy application which, when compared to today's modern standards, was slow and inefficient. Even copy jobs themselves would typically take hours to complete, even when automated.
Goals: To automate the end-to-end deployments for all of our environments.
Solution & Results: Using Jenkins, integration between multiple environments was done with very manual intervention and set up. It was done using a master pipeline and it runs smoothly, and saves me time and effort.
I used Jenkins as an integration tool. First I installed slave agents on my target servers and connected all the required interfaces like Artifactory, Bitbucket, etc. This setup works on a single click. I even automated post-deployment verifications. It made my life and this project so much easier.
Jenkins solved all the obstacles and the need for manual intervention. It also helped to overcome network delay.
Of note: the Jira plugin made life easy and it was simple to generate Allure reports and publish them on Confluence.
The results are the true selling point! They include:
- deployment efficiency with same day turnaround
- build is performed in couple of minutes
- user notifications sent automatically
- delivery alert triggered to Ops team
- runtime reports generated and sent effortlessly