Education & Jenkins – Reap the benefits of CI/CD
Challenges :
– Single place for seamless validation and deployment of salesforce project
– Minimize human interference
– Decrease the release time
– Scheduled pull was limited
– Development team have to locally pull the latest code and do Ant deploy
Goals:
– Simplifed approach
– Reliable approach
– Innovative
– Faster deployments
Solution :
– Move to Jenkins Pipeline
[Jenkins has two pipeline methods : Scripted pipeline & Declarative Pipeline]
[Declarative pipeline method is easy to write,read & we have an option to generate the pipeline from GUI menu options]
– Used BlueOcean Plugin to visualize the pipeline process & results
[ Blueocean is a plugin with easy visualization]
– Declarative pipeline with multiple stages with view & debug errors
Timeout issues:
– The build pipeline included tests too which added time to overall build. This resulted in timeout issues
– To fix this ,we increased the heapmemory
Plugins used :
– Blue Ocean
– JavaMelody
– Git
– Ant
– SAML
– Pipeline Plugin
Benefits:
- Shorter build times
- Release times which decreased from more than 1/2 a day to around 2 hours
- Continuous feedback mechanism for the developers to fix issues instantly
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