Building and deploying reliably

With today's demanding markets, we need to build and deploy easily and quickly. But the speed of our deployment must also deliver reliability. One of the steps needed to achieve this is to use automation via scripts, or with CI/CD tools.

To help us set up the entire process, we should use a CI/CD tool, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, or Travis. First, what exactly is CI/CD?

CI stands for Continuous Integration, and is the process defined for integrating software changes, made by many developers, into a main repository—and, of course, doing so quickly and reliably. Let's enumerate what we need, from bottom to top:

  • First, it is imperative to use a source control and versioning system, such as Git, along ...

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