Become an Automation Champion with CI/CD this Year
An automated Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline simplifies the building, testing, and reliability of your development process.
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Want to make software delivery more efficient? Allow developers to spend their time on more valuable efforts instead of tedious manual processes. An automated Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline simplifies the building, testing, and reliability of your development process. CI/CD is a set of tools that speed up development by continuously integrating and deploying changes. This enables your firm to merge faster code changes and detect bugs at each deployment step. Continuous testing immediately detects whether a merge is correct or incorrect so your team can avoid disruptive tangled code (e.g., merge hell) before it’s too late. Keep your code stable and of the highest quality always; don’t delay or wait for infrequent merges that impede the delivery of new features.
The field of CI/CD is evolving and innovations this year will only increase your firm’s ability to monitor front and back-end systems to sharpen goals and KPIs better. Implementing a CI/CD pipeline means making all parts of the process contextually clear so that any changes are transparent in their environments, especially so they are easily found if there is a failure. In the event of a failure, the environments and any changes are laid out openly so users can see when and why failures occurred. All steps lead to a more straightforward mapped-out course.
Additionally, even if your firm already has a CI/CD pipeline, it may not be fully scalable. Enhance your CI/CD pipeline scalability to the next level by leveraging cloud computing. CI/CD can be implemented as a cloud-native CI/CD, AI/ML-powered CI/CD, serverless CI/CD, or multi-cloud CI/CD. Choose the best CI/CD pipeline for your company based on where your data is stored and your project goals. The choice between them depends on the specific requirements and constraints of your organization's software development and delivery process.
CI/CD also implements strict cybersecurity by enabling frequent and automated testing and deployment of code changes, which can reduce the risk of introducing vulnerabilities and increase the speed of response if a vulnerability is discovered. Automated processes catch security issues earlier in the development cycle, making remediation easier and less costly. Additionally, having a clear, documented, and repeatable process for software delivery can help ensure that security best practices are consistently followed, such as incorporating security testing into the development process, keeping software components up-to-date, and maintaining proper access controls for sensitive data.
How can I implement a CI/CD pipeline into my business?
Jenkins on Azure is one of the most popular open-source automation servers and CI/CD tools. It provides hundreds of plugins to support any project and automate all tasks to deployment while integrating with various tools and cloud platforms.
Other popular open-source automated servers that feature CI/CD automation are:
Most of Ntegral’s products feature automated CI/CD pipelines, and all are Microsoft preferred solutions. Download an open-source automated server from ntegral’s Azure Marketplace to boost productivity and time to product completion through pipeline automation. Happy deployment!