Continuous Delivery with Jenkins Workflow

1. CD with Jenkins Workflow
Udaypal Aarkoti
Director, Solution Architecture
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2. Early Jenkins Jobs
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Job Chaining

4. Continuous Delivery
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5.37%
47.81%
14.95%
48.37%
38.47%
64.07%
86.42%
95.19%
Build
Test
Code
Quality
Analysis
Batch
Tasks
Release
Opera;on
Deployment
Other
What
types
of
tasks
do
you
use
Jenkins
for?
Source:
2012
Jenkins
Survey

6. • Copy artifacts plugin
• Parameterized Trigger plugin
• Build Flow plugin
– Does not survive restarts
• Job DSL plugin
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Existing plugins

7. Workflow Characteristics
• Complex pipeline – Involving multiple stages
• Non-sequential – Loops, forks, parallelize
• Long running builds – Survive outages
• Human interaction – Manual approval
• Re-startable builds – Resume builds
• Reusable definitions – Capture entire workflow
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8. Workflow Features
• Based on Groovy
• Entire workflow captured
• Familiar control flow– Loops, Forks, try-finally
• Multiple stages – Throttle concurrency
• Integrated Human input / approval
• Standard project concepts – SCM, artifacts
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