You’ve read through part 1 and now feel comfortable with some of the core concepts and principles of pipeline as code. It’s time to get your hands dirty and deploy a Jenkins cluster from scratch with infrastructure-as-code tools on the cloud, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and DigitalOcean.
Along the way, you’ll discover how to scale Jenkins workers dynamically and how to architect Jenkins for scale with distributed build mode. We’ll then look at Jenkins essential plugins and how to provision a preconfigured Jenkins cluster with all needed dependencies and configurations using Packer and Groovy scripts.