Ready, Set, Release!
SyntaxCon - Bobby Earl
Agenda
- Introductions
- Fundamentals
- Demo
- Questions
About Me
- Staff Software Engineer at Blackbaud for 4 years
- Father of 3 with a 4th due in July
- Love building LEGO
- First website was on Geocities and contained nothing but profanity
My Work
- Contribute to the Open Source community
- Create UX framework
- Create CLI to automate app/docs creation
- Automate build processes
Show of Hands
Anyone guilty of manual deployments?
(Remember to shamefully raise your hand Bobby)
Consistency is Key!
Automate to drive consistency, reliability, and security.
Services
- GitHub Pages
- Travis CI
- Azure App Services
Each service has many alternatives.
AWS, Heroku, CircleCI, Now, Jenkins, VSTS
Focus on required features.
GitHub Pages
Websites for you and your projects.
- Static files only
- Supports custom domains but no SSL for them
- Can use Static Site Generator Jekyll
- Free!
Travis CI
Easily sync your GitHub projects with Travis CI and you’ll be testing your code in minutes!
- Pristine container for each run
- First-class integrations with other services
- Can be a little slow
- Free!
Azure App Services
Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile clients
- First-class support for many languages
- Lots of tooling available
- Deployment slots
- Highly reliable
- Free, but limited!
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
Confucius
