Travis CI for continuous integration

A common term in software development is CICD or continuous integration, continuous delivery or deployment. Travis CI is a tool that makes automated testing and deployment easy. It provides free continuous integration to open source projects hosted on GitHub and BitBucket. I’m going to use it to build and deploy this website as I update the GitHub for bogdanworks.com.

Set Up Account on Travis-CI with GitHub account

In order to configure a project using Travis CI you need a GitHub account and to sync your GitHub project with Travis CI. You can actually use your GitHub account to sign up for Travis CI by clicking the login with GitHub button at the top of the Travis-CI sign up page:

Add New GitHub repository to Travis-CI

Clicking the + icon you can add a new repository:

Sync Travis-CI with GitHub

If you can not see your GitHub repositories click the “Sync account” button. When your appropriate GitHub repository shows, click the “Settings” button next to that repository.

Build Only Master Branch with Travis-CI

Turn off the build pushed pull requests” as we will only be pushing the master branch:

Configuring Travis-CI

Once Travis CI is synched with your GitHub account, a yml file needs to be at the root of the project titled .travis.yml with the contents similar to what is listed below:

Note: make sure you have the current version of Hugo from https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases

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# travis configuration does not deploy anything but will build the site files 
# every time a new change is pushed up to the master branch on GitHub
install:
- wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.88.1/hugo_0.88.1_Linux-64bit.deb
# this is the file that will be downloaded
- sudo dpkg -i hugo*.deb 
# this will unpack the file downloaded from above and install it this machine
- hugo version 
# version string will be put into the travis log
# hugo will be set up
before_script:
- rm -rf public 
# this will delete the public folder if it happens to exist already
script: # generate the site files
- hugo # the hugo command will build the site files
branches: # only build the master branch
only
 - master
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Push Project Updates to GitHub

You’ll need to add and commit any updates to your repository and push them up to your GitHub repository.

git add . git commit -m “First TravisCI build” git push origin

For help with git commands see my GitCheatsheet post.

After your GitHub push, Travis CI will build your project. You can also sync up your deployment with Travis CI so your updates will go to your website. I used Netlify but there are also other options like, FTP and AWS deployment.

• continuous integration
• CICD