continuous-delivery

"If you’re building Docker images on your laptop for tagging release, be in shame, and then change your behavior" - Kelsey Hightower, 2018 That’s right! If you are building Docker images in your local machine, you are doing it wrong. We don’t want to build anything on our laptop. When we are tagging a new release for production, staging, or even for a dev environment, the build should trigger automatically to save time and avoid the hassle....

Motivation 🌌 🌠 Recently I worked on a MeteorJS project. The live version of the app is hosted on Galaxy and there was no staging environment for this one. So we needed to deploy another instance of this app in a staging environment. The codebase was hosted on GitLab and we have a shared cluster of MongoDB in mLab. While we wanted to run the staging environment efficiently, we also wanted to make sure the deployment is as cost-effective as we can....