DevOps- CI/CD Pipelines

 What is DevOps?

DevOps is a software engineering approach or culture that unifies the Development and Operations team under an umbrella of tools to automate every stage. The Development team is responsible for coding or scripting the software and integrating all the components needed to run that software. Meanwhile, the Operations team is responsible for managing the organization's diverse workforce to ensure effective and efficient daily operations.

DevOps helps achievers meet certain milestones:

  • Frequent Release of Deliverables
  • Team Collaboration
  • Build Management of Unplanned Work
  • Faster Resolution of Issues

What is a CI/CD Pipeline?

The term “CI/CD pipeline” refers to the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline. A pipeline is a concept that introduces a series of events or tasks that are connected in a sequence to make quick software releases. For example, there is a task, that task has got five different stages, and each stage has got several steps. All the steps in phase one must be completed, to mark the latter stage to be complete.

Now, consider the CI/CD pipeline as the backbone of the DevOps approach. This Pipeline is responsible for building codes, running tests, and deploying new software versions. The Pipeline executes the job in a defined manner by first coding it and then structuring it inside several blocks that may include several steps or tasks.

What is Continuous Integration (CI)?

Continuous Integration is a practice that integrates code into a shared repository. It uses automated verifications for the early detection of problems. Continuous Integration doesn't eliminate bugs but helps in finding and removing them quickly.

What is Continuous Delivery (CD)?

Continuous Delivery is the phase where the changes are made in the code before deploying. The team in this phase decides what is to be deployed to the customers and when. The final goal of the pipeline is to make deployments.

When both these practices come together, all the steps are considered automated, resulting in the process we know as CI/CD. Implementation of CI/CD enables the team to deploy codes quickly and efficiently. The process makes the team more agile, productive, and confident. 

Jenkins is the DevOps tool that is most used for CI/CD pipelines. 

What is Jenkins?

Jenkins is an open-source automation tool used to build and test software projects. The tool makes it more convenient for developers to integrate changes to the project. Jenkins achieves Continuous Integration with the help of plugins.

Jenkins happens to be the best fit for building a CI/CD pipeline because of its flexibility, openness, plugin-capabilities, and ease of use.





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