Continuous Integration

Instructor: Edward Raigosa

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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Intermediate level

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2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

41 reviews

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Explain how to use, reuse, and improve continuous integration.
Use Travis CI to perform automation for continuous integration.
Explore Webhooks with both GitHub and Travis CI.
Build better software with improved agility using a continuous integration system.

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Taught in English

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There are 4 modules in this course

In today's world, software development is highly complex and often has large teams of developers working on small pieces of a larger software project. This course will go over the basic principles of using a continuous integration system effectively to constantly improve software. We're going to describe the different stations of continuous test, build, integration and deploy processes required for DevOps practices and apply best practices for quality software management, and tooling to accomplish iterative software build & test processes. You will be able to create an automated job for continuous build, test, integrate, and deploy with Travis CI and use branching and project workflows to enhance the quality, speed and feedback loops for your software assets. We'll describe the attributes of Deterministic Builds and how they are applied within the CI pipeline and use the Continuous Integration data and analytics to measure and improve the health of your software assets. Automation at scale is now more achievable for software development teams, as continuous integration makes it possible.

In this module, you will set-up everything you need to succeed in this course. This includes setting up a GitHub account and GitHub Desktop as well as Travis CI, Docker, and the Atom hackable text editor. You will be able to explain how to focus to make confident builds and to make builds repeatable, reliable, and reusable. You will be able to practice using Travis CI to achieve high-quality builds and discuss the importance of flow control, logging and automation. You’ll also be able to start working on your Probot Hello app.

What's included

14 videos13 readings1 assignment2 discussion prompts

14 videos Total 90 minutes

Course Introduction 8 minutes
Continuous Integration Tenets Introduction 1 minute
It Worked for Me in Dev 10 minutes
Using a Continuous Integration System for Automation 7 minutes
Coding with Confidence: Repeatability, Reliability, and Reusability 9 minutes
Using Travis CI to Achieve Repeatability, Reliability, and Reusability 8 minutes
Basic Continuous Integration Tenets 9 minutes
Set Up a GitHub Account 3 minutes
Set Up GitHub Desktop 6 minutes
Set Up Travis CI Account 2 minutes
Install Docker 5 minutes
Set Up Atom Hackable Text Editor 4 minutes
Prerequisites Checkpoint for This Course 4 minutes
First Repository with Travis CI Workflow; Execute Build on Probot App 15 minutes

13 readings Total 130 minutes

A Note From UC Davis 10 minutes
Explore GitHub 10 minutes
Explore GitHub Desktop 10 minutes
Explore Travis CI 10 minutes
Explore the Docker Hub 10 minutes
Explore the Atom Text Editor 10 minutes
Explore Probot GitHub App Documentation 10 minutes
Explore Probot GitHub Hello World App 10 minutes
Explore Hello World GitHub Guide 10 minutes
Find Our User Account and Project for Probot Hello 10 minutes
Understanding the GitHub Flow 10 minutes
Building a JavaScript and Node.js project 10 minutes
Activities Checklist 10 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Module 1 Quiz 30 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 30 minutes

Learning Goals 10 minutes
Using a CI System to Achieve or Improve The "3 Rs" 20 minutes

In this module, you will be able to discuss how flow control processes help manage speed and state of how an automation will work. You'll also be able to describe how automation will work in a continuous integration environment. You will be able to use Travis CI to perform automation for continuous integration. You will be able to discuss how you can build the instructions for your automation that are required to capture all of the requirements of what it will take to build, test, and package your software so that it is ready to be shipped.

What's included

12 videos2 readings1 assignment2 discussion prompts

12 videos Total 109 minutes

Module 2 Introduction 1 minute
All Builds Start with Requirements 12 minutes
Go With the Flow 10 minutes
Probot App 9 minutes
Dockerization on Travis 17 minutes
Go With the Flow Introduction 3 minutes
Travis CI by Example Working with Phases, Example 1 8 minutes
Travis CI by Example Working with Matrix, Example 2 4 minutes
Travis CI by Example Understanding Phase Tags, Example 3 12 minutes
Travis CI by Example Working with Stages, Example 4 (Part 1) 13 minutes
Travis CI by Example Working with Stages, Example 4 (Part 2) 14 minutes
Go With the Flow Final Review 5 minutes

2 readings Total 20 minutes

Explore Real-World Examples 10 minutes
Activities Checklist 10 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Module 2 Quiz 30 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 35 minutes

Blog Post: GitHub Username Reuse Debate 15 minutes
How Continuous Changes and Iterations Impact Flow Control 20 minutes

In this module, you'll be able to describe how Webhooks work and discuss how Webhooks provide traceability and integration to connect CI to other tools. You'll be able to explain how to use software development lifecycle tools to implement DevOps capabilities. You'll also be able to explain how to secure sensitive data or secrets and apply acquired knowledge with tools such as Travis CI. You will be able to discuss various types of automated scheduling and apply scheduling concepts using Travis CI.

What's included

13 videos1 reading1 assignment2 discussion prompts

13 videos Total 122 minutes

Module 3 Introduction 2 minutes
Work Smarter, Not Harder with Webhooks 11 minutes
Webhooks, Part 1: Install a New Application on Travis CI 7 minutes
Webhooks, Part 2: What Happened in the Build; Create New GitHub App 8 minutes
Webhooks, Part 3: Finish Set Up of Web Application on Glitch 12 minutes
Webhooks, Part 4: Troubleshooting, Webhooks Summary 10 minutes
Shh...Don't Share This Secret 10 minutes
Secrets, Part 1: How to Store Secrets in a Travis CI Project 14 minutes
Secrets, Part 2: Connect to Heroku, Debug, Set Private Key with Heroku CLI 11 minutes
Secrets, Part 3: Generate Encrypted Authorizations and Credentials 10 minutes
Secrets, Part 4: Deploy with Your Heroku Branch 13 minutes
Putting Our Schedules to Work 9 minutes
Schedules and Setting Up Example Schedules in Travis CI 5 minutes

1 reading Total 10 minutes

Activities Checklist 10 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Module 3 Quiz 30 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 40 minutes

Explore GitHub Marketplace 20 minutes
How Webhooks Help Implement DevOps Capabilities 20 minutes

In this module, you'll be able to discuss key factors to achieve deterministic builds and explain ways to improve CI environment to avoid failures due to key factors. You'll be able to describe importance of measuring and monitoring your CI environment as well as discuss key indicators to give assurance that CI system is providing required reliability. You will be able to apply techniques for classifying build failures and discuss how classifying build failures increases confidence of development teams on reliability of feedback loops.

What's included

15 videos3 readings1 assignment1 peer review3 discussion prompts

15 videos Total 137 minutes

Module 4 Introduction 2 minutes
"Just Ten More Minutes" 11 minutes
Measuring and Monitoring Metrics in Our CI Environment 9 minutes
Not All Failures are the Same 10 minutes
Learning and Introduction to Metrics Capturing Tools for CI, Part 1 of 10 8 minutes
Getting Our Heroku Environment Ready for Prometheus, Part 2 of 10 10 minutes
Deploying Prometheus as a Heroku App, Part 3 of 10 10 minutes
Setting Up Grafana to Visualize Our Metrics, Part 4 of 10 9 minutes
Step 1: Setting Up Requirements for the Prometheus Scraper, Part 5 of 10 10 minutes
Step 2: Setting Up GitHub App Checks API Events, Part 6 of 10 10 minutes
Step 3: Mapping Check Run Data into Prometheus Observation Object, Part 7 of 10 12 minutes
Step 4: Finalize and Deploy our Prometheus Scraper Development, Part 8 of 10 12 minutes
Visualizing Our Build Metrics with Some Test Data, Part 9 of 10 10 minutes
Wrap up and Seeing the Metrics Results, Part 10 of 10 12 minutes
Course Summary 2 minutes