Company
Date Published
Author
Rose Kaplan-Bomberg
Word count
2315
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The text provides a detailed walkthrough of setting up an automated Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) process for developing a new CircleCI orb, using the example of an Azure CLI orb. It outlines two main workflows within the orb's configuration file: one for basic validation and dev publishing, and another for integration testing and potential production deployment. The process emphasizes the use of CircleCI's Orb Tools to simplify the development and testing of orbs, including automated linting, packing, publishing, and integration testing. The integration testing workflow is triggered by git tags to ensure thorough testing without manual intervention, and it supports dynamic publishing based on the type of changes made to the orb's source code. The narrative stresses the importance of using semantic versioning for promoting dev orbs to production versions and highlights the flexibility and efficiency gains offered by this automated approach.