Implementing a continuous delivery (CD) pipeline is not trivial, and the introduction of container technology to the development stack can introduce additional challenges and requirements. In this talk, we will look at the high-level steps that are essential for creating an effective pipeline for developing and deploying containerized applications. Topics covered include the impact of containers on CD, adding metadata to a container image, validating NFR changes imposed by executing Java applications within a container, and lessons learned the hard way (in production).
A supporting O'Reilly report, "Containerizing Continuous Delivery in Java," is also be available online, although it is worth noting that the talk is concept-driven and relatively language neutral. The report builds on ideas from the presentation and contains instructions and code for how to create a Jenkins-based CD pipeline that takes a series of Java applications and containerizes them, ready for functional and nonfunctional testing and, ultimately, deployment.
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