Continuous integration tools and best practices - DevOps

I'm always interested in improving the way I do things, so I love to learn new technologies, go with new challenges ... and most important thing, I don't believe in "If it's not broke, don't fix it"! I always review and re-evaluate how I do things!

So recently, I did read more about "Continuous Integration (CI)", and I found some great articles about best practices for continuous integration that worth to read by every sysadmin, developer, and DevOps.

Maybe you are already doing a lot of this, but it's so useful to review what you know, try to enhance your workflow, and how you are doing things. In fact, you will find a lot of opinions about how to do CI, and it's all up to you to find best way to your environment.

Best practices:

• Jenkins Best Practices.
• Ten Best Practices for Continuous Integration.
• Continuous Integration Best Practices: Vision and Reality.
• Continuous Delivery: Huge Benefits, but Challenges Too.

Implementation:

• Continuous Delivery Using Build Pipelines With Jenkins and Ant. (This is best article about parallel pipelines)
• Orchestrating Your Delivery Pipelines with Jenkins.
• Continuous Delivery using Jenkins Workflow.
• Continuous Delivery with Jenkins.
• Configuration to Check if a Master Job Turns Green, then only the Child Jobs of another Job get Executed. (Master job)
• Jenkins: Automatic build generation for new features. (Job Generator Plugin)
• Open Source Tools for Java Deployment. (Oracle)

Tools:

• 15 must have Jenkins plugins to increase productivity.

I think next post will be about "Continuous Delivery and Maturity Model"!
Have a nice day :-)