Building a CI/CD Pipeline with Docker, Jenkins, and AWS EC2
A tutorial-style piece appeared on Dev.to on March 23rd, walking through the construction of a CI/CD pipeline using three tools that have, in various combinations, become the unglamorous backbone of modern software delivery: Docker for containerisation, Jenkins for automation orchestration, and AWS EC2 for the compute layer underneath it all. The piece doesn't appear to be breaking new ground technically — this stack has been a workhorse combination for years — but the fact that someone felt compelled to document it carefully suggests the pattern is still being encountered fresh by developers who are either new to the discipline or inheriting codebases that haven't yet made the leap. That's the real story here. Not the technology, but the persistent demand for clear, practical guidance on assembling tools that the industry treats as settled but that remain genuinely complex to wire together correctly.
If confirmed as representative of a broader trend, here is what this means: the CI/CD fundamentals gap is alive and well, even in 2025. Organisations adopting DevOps practices — and there are still many mid-market companies only now making that transition — continue to need reliable reference implementations. Jenkins, despite younger competitors like GitHub Actions and GitLab CI eating into its mindshare, retains a significant installed base precisely because of its flexibility and on-premise options. Developers encountering this stack for the first time are making decisions that will shape their team's deployment culture for years; a clear, opinionated guide that actually works is worth more than a dozen vendor whitepapers. The second-order effect is that tutorials like this quietly standardise practice across teams who will never know they're reading the same playbook.
Watch for whether this piece accumulates significant engagement — comments, forks, or follow-up tutorials — in the weeks after publication. A sudden uptick would suggest it's filling a real gap rather than adding to the noise.
<p>A lot of CI/CD tutorials show a simple “Hello World” app and a Jenkins job that prints Build Successful. That never felt close to how systems work in real environments. At
<p>I've been running Jenkins in one form or another for years now. Different companies, different sizes of teams, but somehow the same story keeps repeating itself, and at some
<p>When I joined Ericsson's R&D team as an intern, our development environment had a problem that every engineer on the team silently accepted as normal: spinning up a full
<p><strong>Yesterday, my Jenkins pipeline could install dependencies and build the frontend.</strong></p> <p>But there was a missing piece: Docker. Without it, I couldn't package
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