In the first post in this series I covered why you might want to use Jenkins as a CI engine and how to deploy to SQL Server running in a container using the ‘Sidecar’ pattern. […]
The mainstay of my presentation material this year has been my deck on continuous integration, Docker and Jenkins. For people who have not had the chance to see this presentation or have seen it and […]
In the previous part of this blog post I discussed how containers could be used to scale out a singleton work load. Where as my attempts to get my experiments to work ran into difficulties […]
I will forewarn readers of this blog post that this is ‘Conceptual’ in nature, due to the fact in my tests I was spinning up containers which then fell over with core dumps. Nonetheless, I […]
To date I have almost exclusively focused on building and deploying DACPACs to conventional and container-ised SQL Server environments without any testing. This post extends the one on multi-branch pipelines and docker by adding two […]
Spinning up containers should generally be very rapid, however some container images, in particular those for SQL Server may take of the order of seconds to spin up. Take the following Jenkins pipeline groovy script […]
This post covers building a simple continuous integration environment using Jenkins and SQL Server data tools which is fully containerised. There are two github repositories associated with this post, the first contains the files for […]
