Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins

Acceptance testing environment

Depending on our needs, we could test the application by running it on the local Docker host (like we did in the previous chapter) or using the remote staging environment. The former solution is closer to what happens in production, so it can be considered as a better one. This is very close to what was presented in the Method 1: Jenkins-first acceptance testing section of the previous chapter. The only difference is that now we deploy the application on a remote Docker host.

In order to do this, we could use docker (or the docker-compose command) with the -H parameter, which specifies the remote Docker host address. This would be a good solution and if you don't plan to use Ansible or any other configuration ...