Setting Up a CI Environment

In the remainder of this book, we're going to implement Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment. However, before we start, we must choose some software to work with. As I have mentioned, we have multiple choices for our source control and for our CI server and, of course, we can use a ton of programming languages and databases. Additionally, we need to create some project to work with. This chapter will lay out the technologies that are used in the remainder of the book, as well as a high-level overview of how they all work together. For the test project, we'll create a simple to-do list web app. We'll implement it in Node.js with a MongoDB database and in C# Core with a PostgreSQL database. That way, we'll see CI in action in both frontend and backend development, as well as the popular JavaScript language, the compiled...