Continuous integration

CI is the practice of integrating code into a repository and building/testing each change automatically, as early as possible. There are several tools in the market to facilitate Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices, such as GitLab and Jenkins.

GitLab included by default CI functionalities since 22/09/2015 in GitLab 8.0 and CD functionalities since 2016. GitLab CI/CD pipelines are configured using a YAML file called .gitlab-ci.yml

Other CI tools include: Azure DevOps, Bamboo, CircleCI, CloudBees, DevOps/Jenkins X, Gitlab, GitHub, Shippable, JetBrains TeamCity and Travis.

Activities

1. Review wikipedia comparison of CI tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_continuous_integration_software
2. Read StackOverflow CI questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/continuous-integration?tab=Votes

See also

• Cloud computing, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), git
• Kubernetes, Docker

https://about.gitlab.com/product/continuous-integration/

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/09/22/gitlab-8-0-released/