What is CI? and How to implement it in production?
CI – Continuous Integration
CI is the practice of activating automated pipelines for testing and building processes.
The automated build includes the following:
- Testing to verify code reliability and desired result from the developed feature or bug fixes.
- Compiling the source code to an artifact.
- Building the source code to a docker image.
- Additional tests with other software components may also be included in the pipeline.
CI Feedback
When a developer commits code that is activating a CI pipeline the feedback is generated.
Based on that feedback (pipeline log output) the developer knows if there are issues or the pipeline succeeded and is ready for deployment to production (Continuous Deployment).
The log includes the various steps to ensure the code is reliable and software is doing what its designed to do.
CI Before CD
To ensure a successful deployment to production the CI pipelines are extremely important as it is the verification process for the development stage.
Integrating CI pipelines for the entire applications will ensure an expected result for every new code in development.
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