Jenkins and Chef: Infrastructure CI and Application Deployment

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Continuous integration runs static analysis and Test Kitchen integration tests that provision ephemeral EC2 instances (8–10 minutes), apply cookbooks and assert services and files, then throw the instances away; release jobs publish versioned cookbooks to the Chef server and tag Git; deployment jobs query target EC2 and VMware nodes, pull artifacts from Artifactory, and trigger chef-client runs to install Java/Tomcat/wars. The application API is a Chef custom resource of about twelve lines, the pipeline uses a Jenkins deploy server and chef environments to gate cookbook versions.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:08Standard Software Platform
3. 3:19Initial Delivery Pipeline
4. 5:05Improved Deployment Process
5. 6:10Target Delivery Pipeline
6. 7:05Layers of System Management
7. 7:49Infrastructure as Code
8. 8:50Configuration Management
9. 11:02Chef Terminology (1)
10. 11:55Example Chef Code
11. 12:34Chef Terminology (2)
12. 14:01Jenkins as Coordinator
13. 15:08CCC Application Group
14. 15:52Technical Design Goals
15. 18:02Cookbook Types
16. 18:39Data Bags
17. 19:39Custom Resource Usage
18. 20:33Custom Resource Actions
19. 21:11Data Bag Structure
20. 21:49Cookbook Data Bag Code
21. 22:03Roles
22. 23:27Cookbook Build Process
23. 24:25Jenkins Build Server
24. 25:01Cookbook CI Job
25. 25:53Integration Testing Lifecycle
26. 27:00Integration Testing Details
27. 28:47Cookbook Release Job
28. 29:06Application Deploy Process
29. 29:41Jenkins Deploy Server
30. 29:54Deploy Job Types
31. 31:00What Does a Deployer Do?
32. 32:22Push-Button Deploys
33. 32:45Deploy History
34. 34:54Most Important Advice
35. 35:20Principles & Guidelines (2)
36. 38:43When Will You Be Done?

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