CI/CD and Deployment

🎯Overview

In this course, you will learn how Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) work within IBM DevOps Solution Workbench. You'll see how to automate your deployments and safely ship new features using pipelines that build, deploy, and release your services.

Outline

This course introduces the concept of CI/CD in IBM DevOps Solution Workbench and shows how pipelines help automate development workflows.

CI/CD is a powerful feature that enables teams to automatically build, test, and deploy code changes. In this course, you'll learn how to configure pipelines that simplify and secure the release of your services, ensuring that updates reach your environments reliably.

Exercise

Estimated time: 30 minutes
Exercise goal: You will be able to create, run deploy and release pipelines for a asset-based project

ℹ️note

Please note that the links to the workbench tools in this tutorial only apply to the IBM Education Environment we provide. If you are using a different environment, e.g. your own installation, you will need to navigate directly to the required tools.

Step 1: Import Order project asset

First we need a project to create pipeline for it. For easier creation we will create a project based on an asset of the local marketplace of the Solution Designer.

Home view showing the "Asset" section in the sidebar

Click "Assets"

Select an asset catalog

Select a prefered asset, in our case the "ORDS" asset

When opened, click "Create project from asset"

Fill out all details and click "Create"

Good Job! You've created a project based on an asset

Step 2: Create and trigger a deploy pipeline

In this section, we will create and trigger a deploy pipeline for the Order project that has been imported into your workspace. This steps are done to get changes directly built and deployed to a target destination.

Project view showing the "CI/CD" section in the sidebar

Click "CI/CD" zo get to the pipelines

Click "Create pipeline configuration"

Select "Deploy pipeline", fill out all details and click "Create"

The pipeline is now created and running

Click on the pipeline name

Here you can see the pipeline details in Red Hat

Click on the deployment target

View of all deployments of this deployment target

Here you can see all deployments of this deployment target

Click on the last pipeline run

Here you can see the pipeline run details in Red Hat

Step 3: Create and trigger a release pipeline

In this section, we will create and trigger a release pipeline for the Order project that has been imported into your workspace. This steps are done to get changes directly built and deployed to a target destination.