<p>How do you know if a commit to your codebase is deployable?</p>
<p>What gives you confidence if a change will work once it's released?</p>
<p>This can be from manual testing but also automated testing and quality checks from tools such as static analysis and code linting.</p>
<p>However, this relies on every Developer running them before pushing each change and for their development environments to be consistent and matching the target environment.</p>
<p>This can be automated by using a CI pipeline - a series of checks that are run automatically for each code push.</p>
<p>This can include running automated tests, linting code and running static analysis and anything else you need.</p>
<p>This is what determines if the change is deployable.</p>
<p>If your CI pipeline passes, the commit is good can be deployed.</p>
<p>If it fails, the commit should not be deployed and you should get it passing again as quickly as possible as <a href="/daily/2023/06/28/theres-no-value-in-a-broken-ci-pipeline">there's no value in a broken CI pipeline</a>.</p>
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<p>How do you know if a commit to your codebase is deployable?</p>
<p>What gives you confidence if a change will work once it's released?</p>
<p>This can be from manual testing but also automated testing and quality checks from tools such as static analysis and code linting.</p>
<p>However, this relies on every Developer running them before pushing each change and for their development environments to be consistent and matching the target environment.</p>
<p>This can be automated by using a CI pipeline - a series of checks that are run automatically for each code push.</p>
<p>This can include running automated tests, linting code and running static analysis and anything else you need.</p>
<p>This is what determines if the change is deployable.</p>
<p>If your CI pipeline passes, the commit is good can be deployed.</p>
<p>If it fails, the commit should not be deployed and you should get it passing again as quickly as possible as <a href="/daily/2023/06/28/theres-no-value-in-a-broken-ci-pipeline">there's no value in a broken CI pipeline</a>.</p>