Today we're going to take a look at continuous integration and data flex.
Now you might be wondering what is continuous integration. Continuous Integration is a subset of the DevOps paradigm. And DevOps is best understood, as a business strives to improve communication and collaboration within the development team. Continuous Integration assists developers by creating continuous builds of different contributions to a code base.
And it's highly needed within agile workflows, as many different factors is testing need to be as fast and easy as possible. You can also use continuous integration within a small team or even a one man army. Yes, the automation will spare you a whole lot of time. Now it involves three steps. One is contributing to an actual code, the issues in Git SVN, or vault. And secondly is to make an actual build of your application that you want to deploy. And the first step of course, is to actually build and run unit tests that verify that your application is working as it should. And these three steps constitute as a build process. And a build process commonly runs on a build server.
And the build servers job is to create a bill to compile the application or in some cases, a library in a standalone environment, which is the most important part of it all. In this course, we will be using my personal laptop, but if you do want to deploy it on a production system, then I highly recommend doing this on a separate windows server.
As commonly your own applications on your laptop might interfere with the built versus which you don't want. Now to conclude, what we're going to do in this course is we're going to set up the whole CI tool chain from scratch that includes setting up a Git server setting up Jenkins, which will be our build server.
And then lastly, we'll be using day of units as our unit testing framework. Now this course is relatively simple as a will install everything on one single window system that should you want to do it using built nodes or even Docker. Let us know in the forums now to get started.
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