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CI/CD as Code Part IV - Stateless Jenkins : Jobs as Code - Advanced

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In the previous article of these examples , we created a stateless jenkins container which can be initialised solely by using scripts. In that example, a seed job for jobdsl plugin was also implemented. This job was later on used to create an automated simple jenkins job inline. In order to create more complex jobs in an automated fashion, we will extend previous seed job implementation further in this example. Our extended seedJob will poll a job definition repository to gather the information on how to create new complex jobs for some other remote repositories.
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Creating a Customised Mysql Docker Image Supported by Initialisation Scripts

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Summary This blog post aims to provide an introduction to create a database container  with predefined data in it. Therefore, it does not address explanations of basic docker commands and instructions.  Containerisation has many advantages.  One advantage among these is getting up and running quickly with a production ready datasource, which has predefined data in it. This way we can share and use the application data state in local development environments easily. In this article we are going to create such a customised datasource container, in order to speed up our development activities. Even though, mysql is used as the database system in this blog post, similar concepts are applicable to other database systems as well. The steps that we're going to follow to reach our goal are as follows: Creating a Dockerfile for our base container Implementing the scripts for database/table creation and sample data insertion.  Building our customised mysql docker i...
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