Benefit from the automatization of your development workflow by implementing CI/CD Pipeline. Learn how to be fully equipped by discovering its possibilities.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. If you want to deliver code more frequently and reliably, you’ve probably already heard about the benefit of CI/CD tools, used exactly for that purpose. The CI/CD Pipeline is one of the modern development practices related to DevOps services. Let’s explore together what it is, the difference between Continuous Integration and Continuous Development, and more importantly, the role of CI/CD for software development. Continuous integration and continuous delivery/continuous deployment are abbreviated as CI and CD, respectively. In a nutshell, CI/CD is a contemporary software development methodology wherein incremental code changes are done often and consistently. CI-triggered autonomous build-and-test stages guarantee that code changes submitted into the source are trustworthy. The CI/CD pipeline creates an Agile workflow for DevOps services by combining multiple processes like integration, testing, delivery, and deployment. It employs test automation to detect possible pitfalls sooner and also to submit code changes to diverse settings. Test automation evaluates nearly every aspect, including performance to API and protection, which is a critical component of pipeline quality management. Eventually, the ability to automate multiple stages of the CI/CD pipeline results in more reliable, quicker, and higher-quality software, as well as app deployments. More significantly, you should create a CI/CD pipeline before the development process itself, since your workflow will change extremely with the help of CI/CD tools working in parallel. However, to make it happen, you need to adequately set up the pipeline phases. Now, let’s move on to the phases of the CI/CD Pipeline. While each stage of a CI/CD pipeline may be performed manually, the actual benefit of CI/CD pipelines is achieved via automated processes. A CI/CD pipeline is made up of discrete subgroups of operations which are organized into pipeline phases. Following are some common pipeline phases: The source contains the initial source code repository and any change in the code triggers CI/CD tools to automatically apply modifications. User-initiated processes, programmed timelines, and the outcomes of other pipelines are other typical triggers. The process begins with a push-request, written manually, which causes the development of Webhooks to run the pipeline. At this stage complies an app with its source code repository. However, in fact, the build stage is not necessarily used for such languages as Python, JavaScript, and Ruby. Inability to pass the build phase indicates a basic project malfunction, which should be addressed as soon as possible. The implementation of automated tests to check the validity of code and the functionality of the program is included in the test phase. This stage’s automation facilitates the quality assurance for the running code.
