CircleCI Blog

By Chris Smith
Jan 22, 2019
Reusable CI/CD components with CircleCI orbs and Pulumi

This post was written by Chris Smith. It originally appeared on the Pulumi blog, and has been republished here with his permission. We hope you enjoy!

On November 7, 2018, CircleCI announced the launch of Orbs, which allow you to create reusable components for CircleCI workflows. Orbs enable you to simplify your CI/CD configuration by reusing existing orb jobs or commands, in much the same way that Pulumi enables you to simplify the delivery of your cloud native infrastructure by sharing and reusing existing components.

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By Kyle Tryon
Jan 17, 2019
How to make an easy and valuable open source contribution with CircleCI Orbs
or, How as a support engineer I wrote our most-used orb to date (and how you can too)

Experience in Open Source

If you’re a new developer, I’m here to encourage you to consider writing an orb. Orbs are a great way to add some open source experience to your resume while demonstrating most of the skills software engineering roles look for.
- Open source development experience
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment
- Git and Bash experience
It’s really easy to hit all of these major points with a simple orb, even one that just posts messages to a Slack channel. This is, in fact, what I did build, and what I will discuss in this blog post.
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By Ricardo N Feliciano
Jan 14, 2019
Building open source projects on CircleCI

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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- Engineering
By Tom Hu
Jan 10, 2019
Making code coverage easy to see with the Codecov CircleCI orb

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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By Justin Klemm
Jan 8, 2019
End-to-end browser testing with the Ghost Inspector CircleCI orb

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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By Jeff Klukas
Jan 3, 2019
Deploying documentation to GitHub Pages with continuous integration

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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- Engineering
By Angel Rivera
Dec 20, 2018
Building CI/CD pipelines using the CircleCI AWS ECR Orb

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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By Hirokuni Kim
Dec 19, 2018
CircleCI初のOrbsハッカソンレポート

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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- events
By Hirokuni Kim
Dec 19, 2018
Our first-ever Orbs Hackathon in Tokyo

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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By Jonathan Cardoso
Dec 18, 2018
Using CircleCI workflows to replicate Docker Hub automated builds

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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