Continuous Integration
While CI environments do take time to implement, and you will need to keep up on writing tests, we believe that over the long haul they’re akin to a snowflake falling on the top of the mountain – they’ll gain momentum over time.
So what does ours look like? Here’s our list of ingredients:
Our code works its way through this system and, eventually, winds up on our production servers. For our purposes, our process is distinctly broken up into two major steps: continuous integration (GitHub, Jenkins, Repoman, Ubuntu, and Fabric) and deployment/systems automation (Chef, Ubuntu, AWS, and Fabric). This post will only focus on our CI environment. So what’s the life cycle for code being committed as it works its way through our continuous integration?
This is how we’ve built Cameo thus far, and its an awesome setup. Commit > Push > Sit back (as long as you didn’t screw anything up)
