Workshop: Continuous Deployment with Docker and Jenkins

At this Workshop we focus on getting started with automating our builds, tests and deployment with a focus on Jenkins and Docker.

We will first install Jenkins on two servers using Docker and Docker Machine in a master-slave pattern, then walk through a few of the features of Jenkins before creating two jobs that will build docker images for and API and a simple frontend application.

We will also touch on how to deploy your code on a staging/production environment based on the current branch (following git-flow conventions).

Other technologies that will briefly be discussed:

• Docker Compose (used to build and deploy our images)

• Groovy (we will write a Jenkinsfile in this language)

• Nginx (used as a reverse proxy so that our API and frontend are on the same domain)

In the end we will also discuss different other options used for CD by the community.

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: About 2 hours

Bring your laptop!