Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

Spawning a Docker container – performance testing

First, let us create a pipeline code that will create a Docker container (Jenkins slave) using the performance-test-agent-0.1 Docker image for performance testing:

node('docker_pt') {}

Where docker_pt is the label for the performance-test-agent-0.1 Docker template.

We would like to perform the following tasks on the docker_pt node:

1. Start Tomcat.
2. Deploy the build artifacts to Tomcat on the testing environment.
3. Perform performance testing.
4. Promote the build artifacts inside Artifactory.

All the preceding tasks are various stages of our CD pipeline. Let's write the pipeline code for each one of them.