In this chapter, you learned how to create a container-based Continuous Integration environment. We leveraged CircleCI as a cloud-based CI service and highlighted the fact that you can deploy the outcome of your builds to all major cloud hosting providers. If you enable such automated deployment, you will achieve Continuous Deployment (CD). With a CI/CD pipeline, you can share every iteration of your app with clients and team members and quickly deliver bug fixes or new features to your end users.
We also discussed the importance of good API design and established Swagger as a tool that is beneficial to frontend and backend developers alike to define and develop against a live data-contract. If you create a Swagger mock server, you ...
