A modern interface, one-step integration with GitHub and Bitbucket, and a free build container have made CircleCI the go-to CI tool for many organizations of all sizes. What many people don’t know is that we offer extra resources and settings specifically for open source projects.
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Our goal at Codecov is to provide relevant, timely data to help developers and teams understand and improve their code’s quality. We do this by providing highly integrated tools to group, merge, archive, and compare coverage reports. Using Codecov, an engineering team can create a good testing culture while seeing the impact of each new commit on overall coverage metrics.
Codecov began as a project to solve one developer’s personal frustration with being unable to quickly and easily see what code was being tested. From there, it has grown into a tool that is used by everyone from independent developers to open source projects, from small agencies to massive enterprises. No matter the project or the team size, everyone can benefit from a better understanding of their code’s quality, and we believe that code coverage is an essential part of that understanding.
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As applications get more sophisticated, it becomes necessary to ensure that teams can test and deliver their code in a consistent and repeatable fashion. One of the most difficult aspects of testing a web-based application has always been the application itself; testing the user’s paths through your interface is a critical but challenging aspect of project delivery. User interface tests have traditionally been very involved to set up and maintain, often requiring a very technical and experienced skillset. Ghost Inspector solves this problem by providing simple-to-use tooling that allows anyone on your team to create and maintain your browser-based tests. QA teams can to deliver more quickly, more consistently, and test more thoroughly within your application.
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Continuous integration (CI) tools have been evolving towards flexible, general-purpose computing environments. They aren’t just used for running tests and reporting results, but often run full builds and send artifacts to external systems. If you’re already relying on a CI system for these other needs, it can be convenient to build and deploy your documentation using the same platform rather than pulling in an additional tool or service.
This post gives an overview of some popular options currently available for building and deploying documentation before diving into the details of using CircleCI to deploy documentation to GitHub Pages, a workflow that will be convenient for teams already using those tools for hosting code and running automated tests.
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CircleCI has recently released a new product called orbs which are designed to get you up and running quickly on CircleCI. You can now easily integrate your DevOps tools with trusted orbs provided by our technology partners.
In this post I’ll demonstrate and explain the AWS ECR Orb and its usage within the CircleCI configuration file, leveraging CircleCI Workflows, and pushing an image to Docker Hub and a specified AWS ECR.
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私たちは今年の6月にCircleCI Japanを設立しました。CircleCI Japanの目標の一つにコミュニティーの立ち上げと育成があり、その活動の一貫としてCircleCI初の試みであるハッカソンを先週の土曜日に行いました。
ハッカソンの目的は実にシンプルで “Orbsを書きながらOrbsを学ぼう” というものです。
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In June, CircleCI announced the opening of our Japanese office. One of the primary goals of this new office is to build a stronger community in Japan. In line with that effort, last Saturday, we hosted our first-ever hackathon in Tokyo.
The focus of the hackathon was very simple: learning orbs by actually writing orbs!
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CircleCI workflows is a powerful feature that can be used to make your deployment process simple and intuitive. In this article, we will learn how to use them to automatically push images to the Docker registry, just like Docker Hub’s own automated build process, but with all of the customization that your own build process offers.
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I regularly speak at conferences and tech meetups, and lately I’ve been fielding a lot of questions regarding the continuous delivery of applications to cloud platforms, such as Google Cloud, using HashiCorp Terraform. In this post, I will demonstrate how to deploy an application using CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Terraform into a Google Cloud instance. In this example, you will create a new Google Cloud instance using a Google Container-Optimized OS host image. Google’s Container-Optimized OS is an operating system image for Compute Engine VMs that is optimized for running Docker containers. With Container-Optimized OS, you can bring your Docker containers up on Google Cloud Platform quickly, efficiently, and securely.
This tutorial also demonstrates how to use Terraform to create a new Google Cloud instance and deploy the application using this CI/CD tutorial Docker image. The image will be pulled from Docker Hub and run on the instance created from Terraform.
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Note from the author: this post was written in collaboration with Justin Cowperthwaite, engineering manager, with additional input from Jeff Palmer, VP Engineering.
We want CircleCI to be a place that all engineers can learn and grow, and be supported no matter what level they join us at, or how they want to shape their careers. To support this, we use an engineering competency matrix, a framework that outlines expectations and growth paths for engineers. This matrix is a tremendously useful tool for us: it informs the structure of our job descriptions and our interview processes. It helps us set expectations together with our engineers, is a basis for goal setting as well as conversations about learning and development. It helps us have more objective performance conversations which are less susceptible to the biases and skills of an engineer’s manager. Overall, it clarifies the vision of our organization and helps us maintain consistency throughout all stages of hiring and professional development.
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