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The aim of continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) is to enable development teams to frequently deliver working software to users, thereby both delivering value and getting useful feedback on how their product is used in the real world. Many organizations have embraced the DevOps practice as a way to keep up with the competition. However, the business pressure to deliver faster shouldn’t diminish the quality of what is being produced. After all, your users expect stable and working software, even when they’re clamouring for the next shiny thing. That’s why a reliable and thorough automated testing process that gives you confidence in your latest build is essential to your continuous integration and delivery practice.

For DevOps pipelines to work effectively, there are more things to be done beyond just automation of tests. To make the process seamless and truly automated, we need to establish processes such as:

Automatic triggers for the build process
Triggers for test execution
Generation of reports
Success or failure criteria for builds
Automatic deployments to various test or production environments and sanity checks.

DevOps Automated Build Pipeline Services:

Source code management: Integrate a source code management system, such as Git, into the build pipeline to manage the source code and track changes.
Build: Automate the build process to compile the source code and create a deployable artifact, such as a binary or a container image.
Unit testing: Automate unit testing to ensure that individual components of the code are functioning as intended.
Integration testing: Automate integration testing to ensure that different components of the code work together as intended.
Continuous integration: Implement continuous integration to automatically build, test, and deploy code changes as soon as they are committed to the source code repository.
Deployment: Automate the deployment process to ensure that the code is deployed consistently and reliably to the target environment.
Monitoring: Monitor the build pipeline and its components to ensure that it is working as intended and to detect and resolve any issues.
Notification: Set up notifications to be sent to relevant stakeholders in the event of build failures or other issues.
Rollback: Implement a rollback mechanism to revert to a previous version of the code in the event of a failure or issue with the deployment.
Security: Incorporate security best practices into the build pipeline, such as code signing and artifact signing, to ensure the security and authenticity of the code.