Ansible is a popular automation tool based on Infrastructure as Code (IaC), used for provisioning infrastructure, managing virtual machines, and deploying applications across environments. It simplifies tasks such as configuration management, cloud provisioning, and service deployment. Ansible AWX is the open-source, community-driven version of Ansible Tower. It serves as a web-based interface and automation hub that makes managing Ansible workflows easier. AWX is often used in lab environments, proof-of-concept setups, and testing scenarios, and it forms the foundation for the enterprise-grade Ansible Tower. Why Use Ansible AWX? Ansible AWX enhances …
Build Automation
PHP 8 Released
PHP is one of the programming languages that are easiest to use and learn, Now PHP 8 has been officially released and its new major update contains a bunch of optimizations and powerful features to the language which allows us to write better code and build more powerful applications. You can install the latest version PHP 8 via EasyApache 4 on a cPanel server but its main requirement is that the server needs to be running CentOS 7 or newer, as PHP 8 does not support on CentOS 6 servers.
In the software development world, an ideal development environment is a key to developing resourceful software products but sometimes maintaining and configuring this development environment becomes a herculean time-consuming task. That’s where the Vagrant virtual machine manager comes into play. Vagrant solves this by enabling teams to create reproducible, version-controlled development environments using virtual machines and Infrastructure as Code principles. This guide explains how Vagrant works, how it fits into DevOps workflows, and how to use it effectively. What Is Vagrant? Vagrant is an open-source tool used to build and …
In modern software engineering, concepts like continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment form the foundation of CI/CD. These practices automate the process of building, testing, and deploying applications, helping teams deliver software faster and more reliably. While building a complete CI/CD pipeline can be complex, choosing the right tools makes it far more manageable. In this blog, we compare Jenkins and Bamboo, two popular automation servers widely used for continuous integration. Overview of Jenkins Jenkins is an open-source automation server designed primarily for continuous integration. It offers a vast …
API Testing Automation in AWS
API stands for Application Programming Language, API testing mainly focuses on testing themselves on API directly and also used as a part of integration testing to check the compatibility, security and to verify functional paths, functionality and reliability between two different applications. The whole new generation prefers API instead of GUI testing because it is considered as the most stable interface to do the system under test. API automation can help to increase efficiency and expedite the testing. Here we emphasize, how to automate the API test using serverless technologies, …
TeamCity is a powerful Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) tool developed by JetBrains. It is written in the Java programming language and helps development teams automate the process of building, testing, and deploying software projects. TeamCity is widely used by organizations that want to streamline their development workflow and ensure that code changes are continuously tested and integrated. It is a commercial, proprietary tool designed primarily for business environments that require reliable CI/CD automation. Architecture of TeamCity TeamCity uses a distributed architecture that consists of two main components: …
GitLab for CI/CD
GitLab, as you know is a web-based DevOps tool that offers functionality to automate entire lifecycle spanning from planning to creation, build, verify, testing, deploying, etc. GitLab CI/CD is a built-in tool of GitLab that allows you to apply major methods of Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment etc to your software. Thus any third-party applications or integrations is not needed. This blog gives you an insight on GitLab CI/CD tool for continuous software development methodologies. (more…)
Gradle is an advanced general purpose build management system written in Groovy. Gradle has a highly-customizable dependency resolution engine, visual build inspection and debugging tools, and many work avoidance mechanisms. Using Gradle, we can develop apps to microservices for small startups to big enterprises faster. The Enterprise edition of Gradle provides remote caching and test artifacts across the team to speed up the build.