Building a CI/CD pipeline with MuleSoft
In the previous sections, we learned about the steps involved with manual deployment. In order to make deployment hassle-free and enable a faster release, we can automate the deployment process with the help of CI and CD.
This involves building a pipeline with predefined tasks to continuously build, test, and deploy our Mule application (see Figure 9.25). It automates the deployment process with or without any manual interventions.
Figure 9.25 – The CI/CD process
To enable the CI/CD pipeline with a Mule application, we need to configure the Mule Maven plugin in pom.xml.
The Mule Maven plugin
This helps you to build and deploy a Mule application in various deployment environments. You can leverage the capabilities of Maven to perform different operations. The Mule Maven plugin has mainly three goals, namely package, deploy, and mule:deploy/mule:undeploy.
You need to enter deployment details in pom...
