Category: DevOps
The new CI world, Wrapping it up with Git
Welcome to part 6 – Man we are on a writing flow! – of our blog posts series. After all the coding done in the last parts, let’s take a more laid back look at CI and Git. Nowadays many agile teams work with Git and Feature Branches. A developer works with on a feature…
Continuous Integration & Deployment for a Cross-Platform Application – Part 2
In the first part we pointed out how we set up the infrastructure for our CI system. Now we would like to explain how we build a pipeline for our cross-platform application and what features of GitLab CI we made use of.
CI/CD with GitLab CI for a web application – Part 3
Hosting your own GitLab server Some users might have concerns regarding security using GitLab for a variety of purposes, including commercial and business applications. That is, because GitLab is commonly used as a cloud-based service – on someone else’s computer, so to speak. So setting it up for running it on your own server is…
CI/CD with GitLab CI for a web application – Part 2
GitLab Our first approach was to use the existing GitLab instance of HdM for our project. For them, a shared runner was already defined on which we could run our jobs, so we were able to focus on the CI process itself. This plan worked out at first. We simply defined build and test jobs,…
CI/CD with GitLab CI for a web application – Part 1
Introduction When it comes to software development, chances are high that you’re not doing this on your own. The main reason for this is often that implementing components like UI, frontend, backend, servers and more is just too much to handle for a single person leading to a slow development process. So, you have to…
Continuous Integration Pipeline for Unity Development using GitLab CI and AWS
This blog entry describes the implementation of a Continous Integration (CI) pipeline especially adapted for Unity projects. It makes it possible to automatically execute Unity builds on a configured build server and provide it for a further deployment process if required.
Continuous Integration – Move fast and don’t break things
Continuous Integration is an increasingly popular topic in modern software development. Across many industries the companies acknowledging the importance of IT and delivering value to their customers through great software prevail against their competitors. Many reports indicate that Continuous Integration is one of the major contributing factors to developing high quality software with remarkable efficiency.…
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Continuous Integration & Deployment for a Cross-Platform Application – Part 1
When we started the project “Flora CI” for the lecture “System Engineering”, we planned to deal with Continuous Integration. As an important aspect of software engineering all of us have previously been involved in projects where code of developers had to be merged and builds had to be automated somehow. Anyway we felt we could…
CI/CD infrastructure: Choosing and setting up a server with Jenkins as Docker image
Related articles: ►Take Me Home – Project Overview ►Android SDK and emulator in Docker for testing ►Automated Unit- and GUI-Testing for Android in Jenkins ►Testing a MongoDB with NodeJS, Mocha and Mongoose This article will run you through the motivation for a continuous integration and delivery, choosing a corresponding tool and a server to run it…
Security in a SaaS startup and today’s security issues with DevOps
Motivation Facing security in a company nowadays is a big job: it starts with a backup strategy ensuring the business continuation, plans for recovery after major breakdowns, ensuring physical security (entrance control, lock-pads, safes), screening of potential employees, monitoring servers, applications and workstations, training the employees in security issues and policies and does not even…