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The Role of CI/CD Pipeline in Software Development

The CI/CD pipeline includes continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. DevOps teams use it to generate, test, and release new software automatically. This pipeline benefits from regular software changes and a more collaborative and agile team process. You've probably heard about the benefits of CI/CD tools, which are used to provide code more frequently and reliably. Let's examine what it is and how it benefits software development.

What Does CI/CD Pipeline Stand For?

There are two abbreviations for CI and CD: CI stands for continuous integration and CD for continuous delivery and deployment. The software development methodology is known as Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) is based on the idea that incremental code changes are made frequently and consistently. Continuous Integration (CI)-triggered automated build and test stages ensure that code changes submitted into the source are trustworthy.

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Development Efficiency and Measurement

Seeing and improving the efficiency of Software Development teams is a problem for every technical team manager. There are two important points here:

  1. Awareness: How well is the team doing?
  2. Improvement: How does the team get better?

You Can’t Improve Without Measuring

Before attempting to change something, determining exactly where it is located is the most important step. Productivity is not only to complete a lot of task or to write more codes, but to produce high-performance, error-free products in a production environment and write simple and maintainable codes and to provide a sustainable development environment.

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CircleCI vs Jenkins: Choosing The Right CI/CD Tool

If you work in the software industry, you must have realized the never-ending demand for evolution at a particular stage. This is why modern SDLC has more emphasis on the Continuous Integration and Delivery as it helps the DevOps team deliver the software faster with good quality. Gone are the days when Jenkins was the only CI-CD tool that one could think of! Many new CI-CD tools have emerged with out-of-the-box features that make you wonder about which CI-CD should you choose. 

One such tool in the CI-CD tug of war is CircleCI which modernizes CI/CD practices by overcoming certain limitations of Jenkins. On the other hand, being one of the oldest players in the CI-CD market, Jenkins has a large user base with an easy learning curve as you get a lot of content & community forums around it. So which one should you use? Should you go for CircleCI or Jenkins? Well, that’s exactly what I would help you decide by the end of this article.

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DevOps Practices for PowerShell Programming

Powershell is a powerful scripting language and I have seen a lot of developers and administrators miss out on all the goodness of DevOps practices such as versioning, test automation, artifact versioning, CI/CD, etc. 

In this blog, I’ll try to explain with a working example on how to program PowerShell (not just scripting) with a predetermined module structure, ensuring quality with unit tests and deliver code in a reliable and repeatable way using continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.

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CI/CD as a Code for .NET Core Application and Kubernetes

Building CI/CD process for the .NET Core application could be complicated especially when you are dealing with Kubernetes and Docker and if you need to include code style analysis, unit test, and code coverage report.

In this article, I am going to explain the process of building a simple CI/CD pipeline for existing .net core application to moving it to Azure Kubernetes Services using Azure DevOps. The final Pipeline will be easy to understand and reusable.

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The Results of A Comparison Between Five CI/CD Services

What CI/CD service is right for you?

Introduction

In this article I will outline the results of a comparison between five different CI/CD services, namely:

For this comparison, I will use each service to run tests and deploy a Dockerized Node application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I will detail how to configure the CI/CD process with each service and I will provide some performance statistics that compare the services.