Questions tagged [continuous-delivery]
Continuous Delivery is an emerging area of software development, which takes continuous integration one step further. Software teams practicing continuous delivery create build pipelines that enable them to integrate, test, and deploy their software products with high frequency.
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continuous deployment of web application built with multiple packages
Our react web application is broken down to multiple components. Some of these components are part of the same git mono repo and some live in a different repo.
Now, to implement a bug fix we have to ...
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Git Flow w/ VSTS Build Pipelines
I am trying to marry the git flow approach (w/ dev, test, uat, staging, prod env) & automated build and releases in Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). Slightly struggling due to VSTS needing a ...
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How do I automate build-publish tasks for my web server?
I'm developing a node.js web server which will have built source code of server and client part at once. I mean, my web server is on the isomorphic level. this means editing source code of client part ...
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Where in your pipeline does a company that does X+ of deployments per day deal with running E2E/UA Tests [closed]
The ideal goal for my system is the ability to perform an arbitrary number of deployments per day to production while making sure each 'push' goes through the full test suite to make sure it holds up ...
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Should default configuration for deployed services be set as per production usage?
Today, I and my colleague had a difference of opinion regarding the usage of default values in software configuration. We both agreed that for a consumer software, the default configuration should be ...
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Integration of code generators in CI / CD pipeline
In my company, I'm currently working on a project with some (REST) web services involved. The development is based on the OpenAPI specification and the Swagger tooling. The target platform is an ...
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Can we interrupt our service if we use CI/CD
I am a consultant for a large organization. I work with CI/CD. Now sometimes the organization actually interrupts its services for upgrading the systems - I never do that with my own apps (where I use ...
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VSTS CI/CD Workflow with Code and Sql Scripts
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How to setup VS2017 project and Visual Studio Team Services CI/CD to publish code, run SQL scripts, and seed data?
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I started a project with Visual Studio 2017 v15.6.4 (current version)...
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Should we be using same branch for testing AND deployment in a parallel multi feature development enviroment?
Within the development area, often for a given project, more than one developer is working in "his own" new feature on a separate branch (We use GIT for version control). Besides these feature ...
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Why the devops pipeline reads “Code, Build, Integrate, Test”..why build is second?
I might be missing something but I do not get why in the commonly described worklow the Build follows the Code phases. I mean, isn't it the other way around? We code, we integrate the changes, build ...
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Unit testing and other forms of testing
This may be a silly question but if I have good unit test coverage, does that mean I can reduce the amount of, or remove completely, functional and integration testing.
When people talk about having a ...
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Long running jobs and restart of server due to continuous delivery
We have a bunch of tomcat servers running jobs. Jobs are triggered by a external scheduler and run anywhere from minutes to hours.
We need to introduce continuous delivery to these servers. The ...
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Continuous Deployment Database Project VSTS
Looking for continuous deployment strategies regarding SQL server database projects targeting Azure SQL using VSTS. My scenario...
Using VSTS for CI/CD
Using a SQL Server Database Project to define ...
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Should Java (fat) JARs be published before containerization?
There doesn't seem to be a lot of literature around the best practices when it comes to containerization of Java applications and I'm curious as to what the logical approaches are. It used to be that ...
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Distinction between continuous delivery and continuous deployment to production
According to Jez Humble, Continuous Delivery involves "ensuring our code is always in a deployable state" [1], and according to Humble's Thoughtworks colleage Martin Fowler "the key test is that a ...
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shared CD (Continuous Deployment) for multiple Git repositories
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What is the best way to design a shared CD for multiple Git repositories (frontend and backend)?
I'm struggling to find the best design for our CD.
The hole picture (The details ...
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What does “continuous” mean in “continuous deployment”, “continuous delivery” and “continuous integration”?
What does "continuous" mean in "continuous deployment", "continuous delivery" and "continuous integration"?
What is it opposed to?
Does "continuous" make "deployment", "delivery" and "integration" ...
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Is there an intermediate computing model between docker containers and xen hypervisors?
Docker is amazing. You can use it to replicate production and all its quirks on your local machine. Then you can deploy that instance straight through all the staging workflows super-quick. Ie your ...
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What is the scope of blue/green deployments in large-scale environments?
In my past experience, the way we enabled blue/green style deployments was to provision some servers for the new release that were copies of that app's production environment servers, deploy the new ...
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Is it crazy to move deployment logic into test suite …?
We're using (and loving) the jest test framework. Most of our tests are nice compartmentalized good-code-hygiene style unit tests.
However we've also written some service level tests (setting up ...
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Automated Hotfix Release with Semantic Versioning based off of Master Branch
I have a Python script that lives in my CI pipeline that is responsible for publishing branches and tags, publishing AAR's to our Maven Artifactory, uploading Javadoc, etc.
We used to follow a ...
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Whats the difference between staging and UAT environments?
I know we should have at least 3 different environments while developing a solution:
Development: The programmers are free to change and push changes any time in order to quickly test their code and ...
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What are Build Teams, Build Farms and Build Servers?
I was watching this video to learn about how to use Docker and Jenkins.
This guy immediately started talking about concepts I never heard before (well, I'm still in college), which really caught my ...
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Continues Delivery, build once or build per environment
We are having a debate in our teams at the moment around the best process for building our software. My team is following gitflow and building once at the start of the deployment pipeline and ...
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Branching model for flexible feature delivering (git)
Suppose I have 2 features to be delivered (A and B). I have two primary branches (develop & master) for staging and production servers and 2 feature branches (features/a and features/b). When a ...
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How to rollback rejected features by QA in a Continuous Delivery scenario?
As I am looking more and more into Continuous Delivery for our organisation, I struggle to understand how we can effectively incorporate manual QA testing before a release is pushed out into ...
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TODO comments with deadlines?
Background
I'm working in a team that's looking to implement zero-downtime deployments. We're planning on using a blue/green deployment strategy in order to achieve this. One of the things I'm ...
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CI/CD & source control process using Git and VSTS
We are trying get our CI/CD up and running and I was after some feedback on it.
We are using VSTS and building c# api + JavaScript applications.
We want to use VSTS build and Release management. ...
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How can I apply CI/CD to a 'flexible' development process
I've been reading quite a bit, but I can't find any articles that fit our use case (maybe I'm blind), I'm after some suggestions or articles to read.
We have a couple of outsource teams who currently ...
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Jenkins: rsync from built workspace or pull from original repository and build again
I'm currently setting up a Jenkins pipeline for a web application and am wondering which methods of deployment are most common or recommended.
Currently Jenkins polls the SCM for new commits and ...
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How to maintain database script for continuous delievery?
We are working on one legacy framework and it is continuously evolving.
Problem 1 : If somebody want to run the application with latest code then he/she spend lots of time in doing so (like somebody ...
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Where does Behat/Mink fit into the CI/CD pipeline
So I have a project which has BDD tests with Behat/Mink. The scenarios which I have use mink, and so require the testable code to be deployed so that Mink can actually test the pages.
I'm wondering ...
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Deploy Jenkins manually or using orchestration?
So for my company's deployment pipeline (which is evolving towards CI+CD), I'm being asked to deploy a Jenkins server.
As it happens, all the staging and production servers are already being deployed ...
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How to convert the last rc (or other pre-release) into the production version using semver?
Semantic versioning encourages using suffixes to indicate pre-releases: alpha, beta or rc builds. Their purpose is well known and documented.
It's also a given that once you create a build or version,...
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How to manage dependencies for microservices?
We are in the process of slowly splitting out a monolithic application to smaller services and one of the debates we are having is how to manage dependencies. The challenge we have is that service A ...
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Is it a bad idea to use a Beta warning on an onworking web application?
I'm currently working on an online app that includes many fairly new (for the company) features and they fall outside my expertise area by far, which means the edges may not be really well rounded yet....
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Managing release configurations when using TFS Build
The organisation I work for currently uses web deploy to release to different environments. Configuration of web applications (connection strings, service url's, and so on) is managed using solution ...
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How to test configuration changes in a service?
What is the best approach to testing a service when you add a new configuration?
For example my service offers a service to a customer and based on the customer configuration, it will offer a ...
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Preferred way of deploying Spring Web Services in Continuous Delivery
I am trying to decide the best way for deploying Spring Web Services in a Continuous Delivery process. What's confusing to me is there is the Spring Framework and Spring Boot. To my knowledge Spring ...
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How to define the .deb-packages name to reflect the Git branch
Our team develops an application. As this application intended to run on Debian, we've done it in a proper Debian way - via .deb packages. This app is written in C++/Python and versioned using Git.
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when should unit tests be done in a continuous integration environment
We are trying to adopt some CI practices and methodologies into our organization.
I'm currently reading over some of the points in "Continuous Delivery" book written by Jez Humble and David Farley.
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What tools/methods/practices reconcile deployed versions of components?
We have a problem at our org where we have the need to know "with very high certainty" what specific versions of each app/web service/etc. is deployed to a given node and/or environment at any given ...
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Why store app configuration in a data file instead of code esp. when using Continuous Integration?
Consider the following CI procedure is in place:
Builds are only deployed (semi-)automatically.
All changes are version-controlled.
Configuration is fixed per environment.
Why use data files (*....
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How to get developers to fix broken tests
In our company we have multiple test stages:
unit and integration tests (CI build)
application tests (all calls to
other systems are mocked)
system tests (interacting with other
systems)
all ...
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How short/stable should tests/build be for working CI/CD pipeline?
(Please note that this question is linked to this: How can Continuous Delivery work in practice? - but it asks a more specific question regarding time and stability).
CI/CD, no manual QA, super quick ...
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Feature Toggles for Front-end Redesign
We are planning a redesign of our front-end and would like to roll it out using a feature toggle. We want to expose the changes to limited sets of users as we iterate and perhaps allow users to opt ...
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Does it makes sense to manage production/dev/test database dumps as a dependency?
I often struggle with the idea of deploying applications in productive, dev and test environments (not unit testing, I mean like a sandbox) when it comes to databases.
And no, source control is not ...
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continuous delivery: moving to different versions [closed]
lets say:
I have few environments, A, B and C (or development, staging and production)
I have application X
I have multiple versions of application (X), V1, V2, V3
each version of X has its ...
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Does Continuous Integration imply one monolithic VCS repo?
I am part of a small team which develops several internal apps for our company. We are in a process of becoming more Agile, this especially includes lots of automated testing. Now we are in a ...
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gitflow model with UAT releases is too chaotic, how to simplify?
At $DAYJOB, we have the following release/delivery pipeline:
Get new features, work on new features.
Once all features are completed, our own QA performs regressions, etc.
QA signs off on first UAT ...
