What this book covers

Chapter 1, Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment Foundations, starts by exploring some of the theory covering Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment, as well as the differences between the three.

Chapter 2, Setting Up a CI Environment, teaches us how to install our environment. We will set up a Linux Virtual Machine and install some of the tools we will use throughout the book, such as Jenkins, PostreSQL, and SonarQube.

Chapter 3, Version Control with Git, source control is a necessity for any software project and is also a prerequisite for CI, so this explores Git and how to work with it, both from a command line as well as from a graphical tool.

Chapter 4, Creating a Simple JavaScript App, says that before we can continue, we need a project, so we will create a simple web shop using only frontend technologies. Throughout the rest of the book, we will use this app and expand on it.

Chapter 5, Testing Your JavaScript, informs us that we can start writing tests for our project using the project from Chapter 4, Creating a Simple JavaScript App. For our unit tests, we will use Jasmine and Karma, and for our End-To-End (E2E) tests, we will use Selenium and Protractor.

Chapter 6, Automation with Gulp, begins with automating our tests and adding other tasks, such as linting and other frontend work, to our automated build using Gulp.

Chapter 7, Automation with Jenkins, takes our automation a step further with Jenkins. With Jenkins, we can run tasks automatically on any Git commit so that no code is left untested.

Chapter 8, A NodeJS and MongoDB Web App, informs us that moving our app forward, we will add a Node.js and MongoDB backend for our web shop. This presents us with some new challenges that are best automated.

Chapter 9, A C# .NET Core and PostgreSQL Web App, repeats Chapter 8, A NodeJS And MongoDB Web App, but with C# .NET Core and PostgreSQL. Additionally, we will add SQL database tests.

Chapter 10, Additional Jenkins Plugins, explores Jenkins further now that our apps are pretty much done. We will see plugins that will make your life easier and your options greater.

Chapter 11, Jenkins Pipelines, dives deeper into Jenkins to explore Jenkins pipelines, which are basically Jenkins configuration in code. This opens up new possibilities in Jenkins.

Chapter 12, Testing a Web API, is a little unrelated to the rest of the book, but not unimportant; here, we will take a look at Postman and API testing.

Chapter 13, Continuous Delivery, takes us near to the end of the book, and all that is left is to deploy our apps. First, we will do a manual deployment, and then automate this task using Jenkins.

Chapter 14, Continuous Deployment, concludes with completely automating our entire deployment process. The goal of this chapter is to get a Git commit to production without any manual intervention.