Summary and Setup

This lesson provides an introduction into Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery / Deployment (CD) using GitHub Actions

After learning how to test code and packaging for distribution, one would like to automate these tasks as much as possible.

This is where CI and CD tools come in: automating code integrations and deployments continously!

Prerequisites

Familiar with git
Familiar with Python
Text editor
GitHub Account

Set up Python

Part of this lesson consists in learning how to make scripts exit correctly. At some point, we will need to test exit codes with Pytest, Python testing tool.

To know whether your Python has pytest, just run python -c "import pytest". If this command returns nothing, it means everything is fine. Otherwise, please visit https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/getting-started.html for installation.

Set up Python project code

Notice

We will be reusing the materials from the INTERSECT packaging lesson for our Python project code sample.

Create a new project from template https://github.com/marshallmcdonnell/intersect-training-packaging-example
Name it intersect-training-cicd.

Callout

example of template example of filling out template

If you’re having issues, please let us know immediately since you might not be able to follow this lesson without a proper setup.

Set up Docker (optional)

Install Docker: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

To check your installation open a terminal and run: bash docker --version Note that you may have to run with sudo. If you don’t want to preface the docker command with sudo, you may need to checkout https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/linux-postinstall/.