1. Setting up Continuous Delivery with
Jenkins Enterprise and Deployit
Andrew Phillips, XebiaLabs
Mark Prichard, CloudBees
November 7, 2012
@CloudBees @XebiaLabs

2. Today’s Presenters
Mark Prichard, CloudBees
Senior Director, Product Management
mprichard@cloudbees.com
Andrew Phillips, XebiaLabs
VP, Product Management
aphillips@xebialabs.com
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3. Using GoToWebinar
Questions?
Submit via the control
panel at any time
during the presentation.
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4. Today’s Agenda
• Introduction to Jenkins Enterprise
• Introduction to Deployit
• Today’s Delivery Pipeline
• Enterprise Challenges
• Demo
• 5 Points to Get Started
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5. Have you met Jenkins?
• #1 OSS CI server
• Easy to install/use
• Extensible via 600+ plugins
• Widely adopted
– 47K+ installations
• Very active community
– Over 7 years of history, 440+ releases
– 600+ plugins, 300+ developers
• Jenkins Enterprise value-adds
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6. What is Jenkins Enterprise by
CloudBees?
Jenkins Enterprise is Jenkins LTS + Enterprise Features, backed with
Professional Support
Jenkins
Community
Community
Jenkins LTS
Plugins
Jenkins
Enterprise by
Professional Enterprise
Support Plugins CloudBees
CloudBees
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7. Jenkins Enterprise Plugins
Large Optimized
Security
Installations Utilization
• Folders • Roles-based • Auto-scaling
• Templates Access Control for VMWare
• Backup • Wikitext installations
• High Descriptions • Throttled Build
Availability • Secure Copy Execution
• Custom Update • Even Load
Centers Strategy
• Validated • Skip Next Build
Merges • Fast Archiving
www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-enterprise-by-cloudbees-overview.cb
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8. Our Company. Our Product.
o Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts
o Global development and support offices in NL, UK,
France and India
Our flagship product, Deployit, is a market-leading Application
Release Automation platform.
Benefits include:
o Reduce development applications costs
o Accelerate application time to market
o Bridge the gap between Development and Operations
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9. Today’s Delivery Pipeline
Build
& Deploy to Dev
Deploy to Test
Quality Build
(Tomcat & MySQL)
Deploy to QA
Functional Test
(JBoss & Oracle)
Performance
Deploy to Prod
Tests
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10. Today’s Delivery Pipeline
• Environments have different middleware
• Different app versions currently running
• Some environments should be limited to
certain users
• Some environments require approval for
deployment
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11. Enterprise Challenges
• Organizing many jobs
• Standardizing common job parameters
• Securing job access
• Automating job sequence
• Setting up job “guards”
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12. Role-Based Access Control
• Simple matrix of click- Authentication Features
boxes Provides group details
Row: role (Optional)
Column: permission Supports group lookup
(Optional) Feature
• Define groups at any level
✓ Per-project configuration
• Assign roles to groups ✓ Per-object configuration
• Filter roles at any level ✓ Subtractive permissions
model
✓* Supports external groups
✓ Local group definition
✓ Delegate management
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13. Prevent Failures – Validated Merge
• Shield your repository
• Rely on Jenkins…
– Push your code to Jenkins
– Jenkins builds, verifies and merges with
upstream
• Result
– No downtime due to bad commits
– Tremendous productivity boost
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14. Replicate Good Practice - Templates
• Talk in the users domain specific
language
– Shield them
• Capture sameness of jobs, build steps
– Replicate them
• Faster route to success
– building plugins without writing code
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15. Custom Update Centers
• Get everyone on the same page
• Easy to create your own update center
• Host your plugin or binaries
• Inherit from upstream update centers
• Specify version number of binaries or
plugins to be promoted
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16. High Availability Plugin
• Failure detection and Reverse Proxy
recovery is automatic
• Multiple Jenkins masters act
as backups waiting for a Jenkins
Master
Jenkins
Master
primary master failure
• Can be used to do rolling Jenkins Cluster
MT
upgrades of Jenkins
• Backup Scheduling Plugin: JENKINS_HOME (NFS)
back up to the Cloud
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17. Today’s Delivery Pipeline (1)
Build
& Deploy to Dev
Deploy to Test
Quality Build
(Tomcat & MySQL)
Deploy to QA
Functional Test
(JBoss & Oracle)
Performance
Deploy to Prod
Tests
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18. Today’s Delivery Pipeline (2)
Build
& Deploy to Dev
Deploy to Test
Quality Build
(Tomcat & MySQL)
Deploy to QA
Functional Test
(JBoss & Oracle)
Performance
Deploy to Prod
Tests
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19. Recap
• Enterprise features:
• Folders
• Templates
• Access-control
• Job gates
• Validated merge
• “Smart” deployment automation
• Key ingredient: automated tests!
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20. 5 Points to Getting Started
• Define extent and branches of pipeline
• Doesn’t have to be Prod straight away!
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21. 5 Points to Getting Started
• Define extent and branches of pipeline
• Doesn’t have to be Prod straight away!
• Define triggers and gates for your pipeline
phases
• How many of these can you automate?
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22. 5 Points to Getting Started
• Define extent and branches of pipeline
• Doesn’t have to be Prod straight away!
• Define triggers and gates for your pipeline
phases
• How many of these can you automate?
• Do only validated code/artifacts get passed
down the pipeline?
• Watch out if new components are
introduced later on
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23. 5 Points to Getting Started
• Who needs to know/be able to control
what?
• Job settings and deployed configuration
settings can be invisible
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24. 5 Points to Getting Started
• Who needs to know/be able to control
what?
• Job settings and deployed configuration
settings can be invisible
• How much variation across
projects/platforms do you need to handle?
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25. Try Jenkins Enterprise & Deployit!
• FREE 60-day trial of Jenkins Enterprise
• Get Deployit and the Jenkins Deployit
plugin
• Start continuous delivery to your
enterprise middleware
• See www.xebialabs.com/jenkins for
information about your free trial
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26. Try Jenkins in the Cloud!
• Free and complete for developers
• One click to get started with Jenkins,
Play!, Lift, Scala, Sencha, Clojure,
Backbone.js ++
www.cloudbees.com/signup
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27. Q&A
Mark Prichard
CloudBees
Andrew Phillips
XebiaLabs
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28. Thank You!
Mark Prichard, Sr Director Product Mgmt, CloudBees
twitter: @mqprichard
email: mprichard@cloudbees.com
Andrew Phillips, VP Product Mgmt, XebiaLabs
twitter: @XebiaLabs
email: aphillips@xebialabs.com
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