CI CD Systems

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

• Provides very good integration with GitHub itself, from example raising PRs and labelling issues from GitHub Actions is trivial.
• Has good community and ecosystem around sharable GitHub Actions, from installing Ruby and building Docker images to deploying to AWS Services.
  • These actions let use write CI/CD pipelines without the need to write shell scripts.

Links

• Create a CI/CD pipeline for Amazon ECS with GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild Tests

Useful GitHub Actions

• GitHub Action to login against a Docker registry
  • And many other Docker related GitHub Actions.
• GitHub Action to write a script in your workflow that uses the GitHub API and the workflow run context
• Useful starter GitHub Actions workflows
• GitHub Action to download a prebuilt Ruby
• GitHub Action to automatically bump and tag master, on merge, with the latest SemVer formatted version.
• GitHub Action Release Drafter

AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline

• A repository and CI/CD system that is well integrated with AWS tools and services.
• Getting used to this service, might help developers to get more comfortable with AWS Services.