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Why do so many CI practices fail?
There are various reasons that CI practices might be ignored within the team. Businesses have different priorities, Product Owners doesn’t always understand the importance of internal quality, testing processes, and clean builds. The Technical Manager can’t buy time to implement the CI practices or fix a broken CI.
What is a CI job?
Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of automating the integration of code changes from multiple contributors into a single software project. It’s a primary DevOps best practice, allowing developers to frequently merge code changes into a central repository where builds and tests then run.
How do I improve my CI CD?
CI/CD Best Practices
- Commit early, commit often.
- Keep the builds green.
- Build only once.
- Streamline your tests.
- Clean your environments.
- Make it the only way to deploy to production.
- Monitor and measure your pipeline.
- Make it a team effort.
How to check the syntax of a CI / CD file?
The CI Lint tool is a simple way to ensure the syntax of a CI/CD configuration file is correct. Paste in full gitlab-ci.yml files or individual jobs configuration, to verify the basic syntax.
Which is a key part of troubleshooting CI / CD?
A key part of troubleshooting CI/CD is to verify which variables are present in a pipeline, and what their values are. A lot of pipeline configuration is dependent on variables, and verifying them is one of the fastest ways to find the source of a problem. Export the full list of variables available in each problematic job.
Why is GitLab not using CI / CD pipelines?
GitLab hasn’t finished creating the pipeline yet. You are using an external CI service and GitLab hasn’t heard back from the service yet. You are not using CI/CD pipelines in your project. You are using CI/CD pipelines in your project, but your configuration prevented a pipeline from running on the source branch for your merge request.