Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

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

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