Travis CI
Explore how to configure Travis CI to automate building, testing, and deploying Docker images for applications. Learn key Travis CI concepts, setting environment variables securely, and integrating with Docker Hub to maintain efficient CI workflows.
Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted on GitHub, Bitbucket, and more. Travis CI uses a YAML syntax to define configurations on how to build a project.
Travis CI configurations are defined in the .travis.yml file at the root folder of our project.
Travis CI uses some common terminologies that are important to understand.
Build
A build is a collection of jobs that run in sequence. When all jobs are completed, we say a build is finished.
Stage
A stage is a group of jobs that run in parallel as part of a sequential build process. We could have a test stage that runs a unit test job, integration test job, and an end-to-end job.
One important thing to note is that stage groups of jobs that run both in parallel and in different stages run sequentially.
Job
A job is an automated process that starts with cloning our repository into a virtual environment and executing a set of instructions ...