Continuous integration (CI) automates the build, test, and deployment of your software. As part of an efficient DevOps pipeline, continuous integration helps speed up development time by automating code building and testing to quickly deploy new features to users quickly and safely.
Feedback provided quickly and consistently on your code - even before its integration into the main repository.
With Continuous Integration (CI), every commit triggers an automated code review and test process to detect errors in your code. If a change fails the tests, this information is instantly delivered back to developers so they can address it swiftly.
Teams who implement Continuous Integration may also find that it makes them more effective, since early feedback provides easier and faster implementation of changes that result in fewer issues further down the road.
Another key benefit of Continuous Integration (CI) is making developers more cognizant of how their work affects other parts of the system. This awareness enables faster and better planning of project goals and greater success delivering software which fulfills them.
Communication is at the core of an effective DevOps workflow and continuous integration (CI). Without an effective synchronization mechanism, engineering teams could become isolated from other parts of their organization, increasing bureaucratic costs while slowing code releases and leading to greater rates of failure.
