Ansible is an automation tool that comes under IAAC (infrastructure as a code). Ansible is used for provisioning the infrastructure of the working environment, and virtualized hosts. It can also be used to install services and provision resources inside the cloud infrastructure. Ansible AWX is a freely available project tool for testing, which can be used in the lab, POC environment or deployment. It is considered the foundation on which the Ansible Tower was created. Also, AWX is a code branch that only goes through minimal and quality engineering testing. Basically, …
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.
Vagrant
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.
Software Engineering concepts of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment are the main concepts attributed to CI/CD. This enables automation in building, testing and deployment of applications. Though a real CI/CD pipeline is not easy to build the right tools could help to keep it more manageable. In this blog, we compare Jenkins and Bamboo.
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
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.
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.