Now that we have scaffolded and developed our e-commerce application, it's time to make it ready for deployment to our production environment. Before that, there are two important aspects of engineering that we need to look at, quality and stability. In this chapter, we will see how this can be achieved using modern DevOps practices, such as continuous integration and automated testing.
We will also see the following:
- Fixing and running tests
- CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment) tools
- Setting up CI with Jenkins using the JHipster CI-CD sub-generator
DevOps is a software engineering practice that unifies software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). The main focus of DevOps is automation and monitoring at all stages of software engineering, such as development, integration, testing, deployment,...
