

In this post I will detail the steps on how to install and configure Team City on a Ubuntu server. Although i would concede that there is an initial impact of getting everything set up and configured. Having and effective CI/CD pipeline in place, can at times make 1 developer more productive than 2-3 developers.

I would argue that even for lone developers and one man empires, CI/CD is vitally important, because it helps you to automate a lot of the cruft work when it comes to building and maintaining projects. CI/CD automation then performs any necessary service calls to web servers, databases, and other services that may need to be restarted or follow other procedures when applications are deployed.Īlthough, much of the documentation regarding CI/CD is quite focused around Collaboration and Communication for Software Development Teams in an enterprise setting. Software Development teams work with multiple environments other than the production, such as development and testing environments, and CD ensures there is an automated way to push code changes to them.ĬI/CD tools help store the environment-specific parameters that must be packaged with each delivery. This is primarily driven by the fact that most modern applications require developing code in different platforms and tools, the team needs a mechanism to integrate and validate its changes.Ĭontinuous delivery picks up where continuous integration ends, by automating the delivery of applications to selected infrastructure environments. The implementation is also known as the CI/CD pipeline.Ĭontinuous integration is a coding philosophy and set of practices that drive development teams to implement small changes and commit code to version control repositories frequently. Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) embody a culture, set of operating principles, and collection of practices that enable software development teams to deliver code changes more frequently and reliably. In any software development project, a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment DevOps environment is essential.
