Questions tagged [continuous-integration]
In software engineering, continuous integration (CI) implements the continuous building and automated testing of the full software product on a frequent schedule. At least once a day, often several times a day and sometimes as often as after every check in to the version control system.
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How to manage connection strings for CI/CD and local debugging that works for .NET Framework web apps and desktop apps?
We want CI/CD to inject the production connection string into a .NET Framework app.config during deployment.
In source control, we only want test/staging DB connection strings.
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Should release/deployment builds run tests again?
In many configurations of CI/CD pipelines I encounter, things run somewhat like this:
compilation and tests are run on a pull request
after merging, the build is triggered on the main branch, which ...
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Debugging a performance issue, do I commit the timing code?
I am working in small company, having a lead position in a group of 5. We are developing a C++ application. One requirement is that it needs to run fast.
Today, I noticed one function, say f1(), and ...
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Microservices shared end-to-end testing: Which version(s) of other microservices to use?
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I am reading Building Microservices (second edition) by Sam Newman.
In chapter 9 the author highlights 2 problems when desiging end-to-end testing for microservices:
Which version of the ...
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Is CI/CD a myth
Perhaps because I'm primarily a coder, I don't understand the benefit of CI/CD, or any related terms such as scrum, agile, etc.
In my opinion, testing can be done locally on development computer;
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Git Flow best practice for quarantine snapshot to staging environments (dev, test, prod)?
I have a CI pipeline that creates snapshot artifacts with constant version numbers after each commit to the development branch. Then the snapshots are deployed to the stages (dev, test) sequentially ...
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How to increase maintainability in CI/CD pipelines
We have an issue of maintainability for our pipelines at the organization where I work, whereby making a change and ensuring the change is tested and bug-free for our customers (other developers in ...
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Should build stage be in Dockerfile?
I personally put build stage in Dockerfile. (Using multi-stage feature in Dockerfile)
But in my company, we have dev containers where all dependencies are installed and managed. So in our product's ...
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How to use trunk based development when using Scrum [closed]
In Scrum we do a 2 week sprint and ship the features after the sprint. I have heard a lot of good things about TBD, but does it conflict with Scrum? Can anyone share your workflow if it is possible ...
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Can 1.0.1 be "applied" in 1.0.0 and in 1.1.0?
Regarding my last question: Can 1.0.1 be launched right after 1.1.0?. I learned that releases can be maintained in parallel using SemVer and it is possible to apply it using Git Flow (Reference: Post ...
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How to automate version bumping, when version bumping involves changes in source code and a git tag?
I have a small open source package and I'm trying to automate parts of the release life cycle. I am very confused about how to automate version bumps. Here's the relevant information about my version ...
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When should release versions be bumped?
I want my projects to be SemVer compliant. I follow a trunk-based development approach. I also want to keep things as simple as possible.
I assume that each commit on main (default branch) is a ...
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Does Automated Pipeline Mean CI/CD Pipeline?
I am not sure if I have been using the term wrongly (and including it in my CV), so some inputs from the community will be appreciated.
I am not a DevOps, but a noob machine learning engineer. So I ...
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Which comes first: CD/Trunk-based development or microservices?
My company* wants
to move from using long-running feature branching (~up to a few weeks) to continuous integration with trunk-based development, and
to break up our monolith into microservices.
We'...
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Best practices for managing software releases with CI/CD with distributed software components running on a customer on-site machine?
I'm looking for some resources on learning how to best manage our software releases in an efficient manner, as our current method slows release schedules down.
My current team produces and administers ...
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