What is CI and why use it?

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Post by smathieu » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

What is CI and why use it?
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Re: What is CI and why use it?

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Post by jipiboily » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 5:48 PM UTC

JP, author of the post here - let me know if you have any additions / questions! :)

Re: What is CI and why use it?

#3

Post by shangxiao » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 5:54 PM UTC

jipiboily wrote: post #2

JP, author of the post here - let me know if you have any additions / questions! :)

No mention of CloudBees?

Re: What is CI and why use it?

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Post by jipiboily » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

shangxiao wrote: post #3

jipiboily wrote: post #2

JP, author of the post here - let me know if you have any additions / questions! :)

No mention of CloudBees?

As mentioned in the post, there are TONS of options, I just mentioned a few ones :)

Re: What is CI and why use it?

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Post by ABS » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

jipiboily wrote: post #2

JP, author of the post here - let me know if you have any additions / questions! :)

maybe a link to the seminal article by Martin Fowler from 2006 could be useful for those who want to learn more? http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html

Of course CI is older than 2006 but that article is the most referenced one, and for good reasons IMHO

Re: What is CI and why use it?

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Post by Dewie » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 6:32 PM UTC

It's nice to send a pull request with only documentation changes and then having Travis CI fail.

Re: What is CI and why use it?

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Post by sergiotapia » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 6:33 PM UTC

PSA: CodeShip just today announced free plans for up to 5 private repositories. Excellent and more than enough for most startups. Get started with CI -today- it's worth it.

https://www.codeship.io/

Re: What is CI and why use it?

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Post by PhilipA » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 6:36 PM UTC

The hosted CI solutions like CircleCI looks good, but letting them control my code and do the deployment, really requires quite a bit of trust. It is another chain who can have a security breach, which could let intruders have access to my code.

Re: What is CI and why use it?

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Post by fredsters_s » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 6:37 PM UTC

Dewie wrote: post #6

It's nice to send a pull request with only documentation changes and then having Travis CI fail.

This is why having a solid CI setup is crucial.

Re: What is CI and why use it?

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Post by fredsters_s » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 6:39 PM UTC

PhilipA wrote: post #8

The hosted CI solutions like CircleCI looks good, but letting them control my code and do the deployment, really requires quite a bit of trust. It is another chain who can have a security breach, which could let intruders have access to my code.

Like with all these things it's a trade-off. If security is important to you above everything else, then yeah, host it yourself and spend the extra time. But this is true for only a tiny % of startups.

Also, you're assuming that you're better able to secure this stuff than they are. Which doesn't seem obvious to me.