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Continuous Integration – CI Told You So!
Episode 5

Continuous Integration – CI Told You So!

A frank discussion of Continuous Integration

Arrested DevOps · Trevor Hess and Matt Stratton

January 29, 201457m 30sExplicit

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Show Notes

Retro

Matt

Matt hates Subversion.

Trevor

Trever attended a Chef training class and is super excited about it. Even though he only learned how to make it configure Linux machines.

User Stories

This is a new section of the podcast where we introduce a new topic in just a couple sentences. This episode's "requirement" is Configuration Management.

Want to learn more about Configuration Management? Check out The Food Fight Show podcast!

Outline

  • Overview of CI
  • What about feature branches?
  • What is the difference between using a CI tool for CI, and using a CI tool to orchestrate workflow automation
  • Where do you begin when wanting to start CI? What bite of the elephant goes first?
  • Where does testing come into play? How do we talk about unit vs functional testing and what is used in the CI portion/build?
  • Preflight checkin vs checking into trunk
  • Paul Hammant's blog (trunk-based design)
  • Codeship
  • TravisCI
  • DevMynd

Check-Outs

Matt

Trevor

Mathias

Joe