Travis
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Travis CI is a continuous integration tool that is often used as part of DevOps development. It is a hosted service that enables users to test their projects on GitHub.
Once travis is activated in a GitHub project, the developers can place
a .travis file in the project root. Upon checkin the travis
configuration file will be interpreted and the commands indicated in
it will be executed.
In fact this book has also a travis file that is located at
Please inspect it as we will illustrate some concepts of it. Unfortunately travis does not use an up to date operating system such as ubuntu 18.04. Therefore it contains outdated libraries. Although we would be able to use containers, we have elected for us to chose mechanism to update the operating system as we need.
This is done in the install phase that in our case installs a new
version of pandoc, as well as some additional libraries that we use.
in the env we specify where we can find our executables with the
PATH variable.
The last portion in our example file specifies the script that is executed after the install phase has been completed. As our installation contains convenient and sophisticated makefiles, the script is very simple while executing the appropriate make command in the corresponding directories.
Exercises
E.travis.1:
Develop an alternative travis file that in conjunction uses a preconfigured container for ubuntu 18.04
E.travis.2:
Develop an travis file that checks our books on multiple operating systems such as macOS, and ubuntu 18.04.