What is continuous integration (CI)?

Modern software development would not be possible without continuous integration (CI). The creation of modern software typically involves the collaboration of numerous developers who are geographically diverse, each of whom focuses on a particular component, feature, or aspect of a product. In order for you to bring a single, comprehensive product to release, it is necessary to merge all of these code changes. However, manually merging all of these changes is extremely impractical, and a painful chore, and when developers are working on many updates concurrently, there will inevitably be code changes that conflict with one another. However, continuous integration incentivizes developers to continuously push their code to the same version control system (VCS), providing a brilliant synergy that solves this problem. With the use of CI, you can continuously commit, build, and test your team’s code, a vital strategy as a DevOps release manager...