What are CI/CD tools?

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 By supporting a marketplace of plugins, CI/CD tools provide various functionalities for automating the stages of app development and enable developers to release high-quality, error-free code regularly. These tools perform many tasks, like they –

  1. Let development teams set environment variables, mask variables like account keys and passwords, and configure them again while deploying on the target environment.
  2. Automate testing for reviewing and validation of the software
  3. Create a document trail of the software development process.
  4. Avoids integration issues by promptly discovering errors caused by frequent source code modifications.
  5. Provide dashboard and reporting functions to implement observable CI/CD pipeline.
  6. Alert the developers if a build or delivery fails.

Everyone working in the software industry realizes the never-ending demand for evolution at some stage. That’s why the modern software development lifecycle emphasizes the automation of the CI/CD process. And when there is automation, there are tools!

Although there was a time when one particular tool solely ruled the tools spectrum (we’ll soon talk about this tool that’s still popular!), many new contenders have emerged with out-of-the-box features. Therefore, it’s natural to wonder what is the best CI/CD tool.

However, before diving deep into these tools, let’s wind back the clock a little!? Thanks to the agile manifesto, technological practitioners realized the need for “continuous improvement.” As a result, the term CI/CD gained momentum in the 2000s with the emergence of Java, Javascript, and PHP. And entered the predecessor of continuous integration tools, Jenkins!



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