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In this guide, we’ll walk through a complete DevOps pipeline—covering Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), Continuous Delivery (CDel), and Post-Build Reporting. We’ll orchestrate everything with Jenkins, deploying to three targets:
  • AWS EC2 (Docker container)
  • Kubernetes via GitOps (Argo CD)
  • AWS Lambda (serverless)
The image is a diagram illustrating a DevOps pipeline, detailing stages of continuous integration, deployment, and delivery, along with post-build processes.

Continuous Integration (CI)

We adopt a feature-branch workflow:
Developers work in feature/* branches. Every push to a feature branch automatically triggers the Jenkins CI pipeline.

CI Stages Overview


1. Install Dependencies

2. Dependency Vulnerability Scans

3. Unit Tests & Coverage

4. Static Code Analysis (SonarCloud)

5. Containerization

6. Image Vulnerability Scan (Snyk)

7. Push to Container Registry


Continuous Deployment (CD)

Once the Docker image lands in AWS ECR, we deploy to an EC2 instance:
  1. Run Container on EC2
  2. Integration Tests
  3. Open Pull Request
    Contributors open a PR to merge feature/* into main, kicking off Continuous Delivery.

Continuous Delivery (CDel)

After the PR CI build succeeds:
  1. Deploy to Kubernetes via GitOps
    Update the image tag in your Git manifest:
    Argo CD auto-detects the change and syncs the cluster.
  2. Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
  3. Merge Pull Request
    After security review, approve and merge into main.
  4. Approval & AWS Lambda Deployment
    Jenkins pauses for a manual approval. Once approved:
  5. Lambda Invocation Tests
Ensure your AWS credentials have lambda:UpdateFunctionCode and lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration permissions.

Post-Build Reporting

Finalize the pipeline by aggregating results and notifying the team:
  • Archive & Publish Reports
  • Slack Notifications

This end-to-end pipeline integrates roughly 15–20 stages, combining multiple security checks, tests, and deployment strategies. Let’s begin by configuring the Jenkinsfile for CI!

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