CircleCI prerequisites

In order to get started with CircleCI, you will need to either create a GitHub account at https://github.com/ or a Bitbucket account at https://bitbucket.org/product.

Creating a GitHub account

We covered in detail how to create a GitHub account in Chapter 9, Installation and Basics of Travis CI, in the Creating a GitHub account section.

Creating a Bitbucket account

We will create a Bitbucket account and once again use the username of packtci for our user:

Once you click the green Continue button, you will be redirected to a page like this:

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