Questions tagged [continuous-integration]
Continuous-Integration (CI) is the process of merging developer's working code copies to a shared codebase frequently to prevent or minimize integration problems. For questions about a specific CI system like [Jenkins] or [Travis-CI] use those tags instead.
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feature flags vs versioning for APIs
We are looking at moving to a trunk based development branching strategy rather than gitflow that we currently use. I understand that feature flags are crucial to trunk based development. However, is ...
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Jenkins and docker login issue
I am trying to create a Jenkins pipeline that will pull a public image from docker hub and build a Vue.js application inside that container. In my Jenkins server I already have other pipelines that ...
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Octopus deployment step never ends
I have the below power shell script step in octopus that starts a batch file:.
$path= "<filePath>\start.bat"
$args= '"<filePath>\protractor" "<filepath>/conf.js" "<filepath>/...
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Dockerized System Tests slowing down build time [closed]
We are using Dockerized system tests.
The tests start up multiple docker containers like a DB server, ApplicationX & ApplicationY which work together to form a system test case.
The amount of ...
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Jenkins triggered by multiple git repos
I've been looking around to see how to have ~10 different repos all on a git push trigger a single pipeline that does pretty much the same exact thing - build a docker image -except that the different ...
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Should I implement Devops on a small project. Is it too big for it? [closed]
Just like the headline suggested, is it too big to implement devOps on a private application I'm solely developing. I mean creating the pipelines, continuous testing and continuous deployment.
And if ...
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TeamCity - CI w/ Multi-project .NET solution using SOA build and delivery issues
I have a multi-project .NET solution that I'm trying to set-up with TeamCity (TC) for CI and Octopus Deploy (OD) for CD.
I originally set-up TC to pull the latest from SVC, build the solution and ...
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Last Question on CI-CD edx.org Final Exam [closed]
The problem:
An organization is developing a solution that contains
a web application project
class library projectS
You manage a continuous integration pipeline for the application.
Each time ...
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Multi-language Monorepo
We currently have a "front-end" git repository that is all of our JavaScript client apps, and a "back-end" git repository containing all back end APIs written in .NET Core. There is also a few other ...
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Serve an application built by the pipeline
In the company that I work, the frontend application is very complex, so one of our layers of testing includes building/serving the application and testing with integrations mocked (The application ...
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How to mange data access in a CICD pipeline for multiple users with different permissions
TLDR Question;
Is it possible to setup a CICD pipeline so that it executes with the permissions of the user who triggered the build? If so which tools support this?
Full Question;
Apologies if this ...
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Is it possible to send email notification for Input (GO/NOGO) from a pipeline
There is User input functionality in the declarative pipeline which prompt on the Jenkins console but it's a headache to login every time on console and select the appropriate action.
So I want to ...
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How to deploy SQL Script in DevOps culture and Rollback situation too?
How we can manage database part in DevOps environment/CICD pipeline, Here taking about the SQL Script. For Example any deployment where Insert and Update SQL's, If we setup in CICD pipeline then I ...
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Cross-CI on Windows and Mac
I am deploying CI with several runners - however they are all based on the Docker executor on Linux. Is it possible to use Linux runners to test applications on Windows or Mac instead?
I understand I ...
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What is the difference between DevOps and GitOps?
I am hearing nowadays a lot about GitOps. What is the difference between DevOps and GitOps?
Is it just the SCM does the build and deploy when there is a commit instead of the CI/CD tool exclusively?
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Best way to create a Ci/CD pipeline to reduce bugs and facilitate refactor
I started a project with a small team (3 people ) and we had to hack a lot and built a big application with no unit tests, relying only on manual. Now we have a huge technical debt and we started ...
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Is Cypress ok for acceptance tests on APIs in a CI/CD pipeline?
I have a small team but a gigantic application. We don't have PHP unit testing, so we will be using Cypress as a baseline for quality. Everything will go through a CI/CD pipeline and use regression ...
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Continuous integration using bitbucket pipelines failed for OpenEdx
I am trying to set up CI process using bitbucket pipelines for my Openedx site. The script that i am using in my bitbucket-pipelines.yml file is given below. I am trying to just set up the build ...
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Pooled Build Server and Multibranch development to stabilize the trunk?
I'm a Dev in a big (40+ Devs) old (16+Years) SW project. We still work with SVN as source control but we are getting after automation as much as we can.
One problem that hounts us is, that 40 devs ...
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Git Release branching strategy for Continuous integration and deployment
We have tried multiple branching strategies to adopt CI/CD.
Developers develop on the feature branch and then merging to master which get deployed to QA for testing and then master is deployed to ...
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Mobile CI: Versioning and Tracking Builds in JIRA
We're in process of defining a workflow for mobile builds across multiple developers. We've only had one until recently, so we didn't have to worry too much about tracking simultaneous feature builds ...
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Git-based CI/CD Pipeline for Monorepo
Are there established CI/CD strategies & best practices for working with a distributed team on a project that is utilizing monorepos?
I can provide two specific use-cases:
Working on content ...
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How to handle different credentials in continuous integration?
I am using teamcity to automatically build and test a nodejs application. The problem I am facing is that the application needs to have some environment variables set during the build phase, as well ...
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Are using TestContainers safe for integration tests?
I have a discussion with our DevOps about using Testcontainers for integration tests. It's a tool to bring up throw-away containers for testing. The testcontainers need a environment variable ...
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Performance testing as part of Behat browser testing for Drupal in Drone CI
Background
Recently I did a major Drupal upgrade on a site which required a lot of code changes in my custom code and also some work with the caching layer in Drupal. After deploying the site to the ...
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CI platforms versus simple git hooks
Newbie to devops here and apologies this is probably a stupid question, but, what is the point of CI platforms? It seems to me that just by using git hooks I can automatically run all my unit tests ...
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Unable to parse YAML: mapping values are not allowed here
Good morning. I'm migrating from Gitlab to CircleCI and try to map out a simple pipeline ("workflow") that basically should look like this:
[build] -> [tests] -> [release*]
* only on tags
I ...
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Deploy desktop application in Azure DevOps
I'm using Azure DevOps and I need a way to release an internal desktop application. Right now I have a pipeline ready and generating artifacts, but I don't see anywhere in the documentation how can I ...
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Building a CI/CD pipeline on GCP
I have a containerized web application on GitHub and I would like to build a CI/CD pipeline on GCP consisting of a trigger stage, a build stage and a deployment stage and be able to do continuous ...
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How to send Rocket.Chat notifications when Concourse jobs fail
I have found the below tutorial for sending Slack notifications when Concourse jobs fail:
https://concoursetutorial.com/miscellaneous/slack-notifications/
Does anyone have any experience using ...
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GitHub and Travis integration broke down for a branch
I have a branch on Github connected to a pull request. The branch can merge to master only when the tests pass on a Travis build.
Today, the connection between Travis and Github broke down for the ...
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How to deploy Node app via Jenkins to Ubuntu(18.04)?
I'm a very beginner in Jenkins and afraid that I ask you something not clear with a weird question.
I'd like to deploy my simple node app server to Ubuntu via Jenkins.
I tried to write a command in ...
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In Azure Devops, is it possible to pass an argument that is variable on the source environment?
I am trying to create a Task Group that can be used interchangeably between Build and Release pipelines.
However, I am having an issue passing one of the arguments to my Powershell Task Group.
The ...
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Is there a [ci skip] option in GitLab CI?
I'm debugging the use of a report creator. I forgot a line and would like to edit the code without triggering the build pipeline.
I know that it's possible to write [ci skip] in the commit pipeline ...
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Jenkins Shared lib not working properly
Recently I tried to add Shared Libraries to my Jenkins instance to make it easier to maintain all code that runs in each project.
I have a repo myorg/jenkins
Inside of it I have Jenkinsfile and ...
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How is Continuous Integration different from using git to integrate external code?
I have a conceptual doubt about CI using Jenkins. I know Jenkins can help me to integrate all code built by developers.
So the question is: How is this not already resolved with Github (or any other ...
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How to avoid build scripts duplication
Let's say you've got several code repositories on GitHub. You want to build, test and deploy them. You picked a continuous integration service (e.g. Travis CI, AppVeyor or something else) and wrote ...
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How to use shared runner (dind) for build stage and runner with shell executor on my server for deploy stage?
I want to do the build of my image on a shared runner and build it on gitlab registry.
then I want to pull that image, on my server using the runner on my server using shell executor.
but I face a ...
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What are the best practices of merging dev to master?
We have 2 branches (master/dev) + some feature branches and 2 environments (production/dev). Our team is a very small people. What are the best practices of merging dev to master?
Every morning?
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How should CI/CD deploy to production environment - copy artifacts or git pull from the server?
We have an internal CI/CD server running private GitLab. It has the source code of our NodeJS project. We would like to run CI/CD and have it deploys to our on-premises production server. (Let's ...
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How can I test native macOS UI software in a container before deployment?
As part of the CI setup, I'd like to run (automated) tests on native macOS GUI software in a 'safe environment' (i.e. without messing with the host software installation too much). Virtual machines (...
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What is the cheapest way to get CI for a Qt project?
To build up my portfolio I'm writing an application to showcase all the best practices I'm aware of, including unit tests and continuous integration.
The project was originally started in C++, and I ...
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Maintaining Jenkins configuration with docker
I'm trying to configure CI with Jenkins for my private project. Problem:
whenever I start building a pipeline project, it gives me ,,Docker is not found'' error
whenever I try to work around this by ...
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How to deploy a ZIP or WAR equivalent (built locally via npm)?
I use NPM to build my web project, and it does so nicely to a little ZIP file. Keeps everything nice and light, and I can easily keep bloat down.
My current process is to use an FTP client (Win SCP), ...
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Deploy to GKE from CI server outside of cluster
I'm setting up our CI (Jenkins pipeline) to deploy apps to a GKE cluster. Our Jenkins sever is running external to GKE or any Google Cloud infrastructure. I'm thinking of using a docker image with ...
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Read webhook payload in Gitlab CI
I have a project (PROJECT_A) that is triggered through a webhook, and expects the variable $PRODUCT to be set. Its value is used to trigger a certain path in the build. The job in the .gitlab-ci.yml ...
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How to deal with untested features in the develop branch before deployment?
Our current software deployment lifecycle looks like this (using git-flow);
We test locally or on a development environment.
We submit a pull-request to merge the feature into the develop
branch
Our ...
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In Azure Devops and TFS, is it possible to create a build artifact and release definition in a different collection than the original code repository?
I have code repo held in Collection 1 and, using this code repo, I am trying to create a Build artifact and Release definition in a different Collection 2.
Is this even possible?
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Should developer wait for CI pipeline to complete or start next task after pushing
My company is integrating CI/CD, so far we have implemented CI from what I understand. Currently when a developer pushes code to our git repo, the CI pipeline runs.
Currently our CI pipeline include ...
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Automate creation of branch + pull-request
I have a repository (call it repo-X) of shell.nix files that define development environments for a number of separate projects (call them project-A, project-B).
When one of the projects releases a ...
