There are many online CI services (such as Travis, CircleCI, Bamboo, and Shippable) as well as self-hosted CI-capable platforms (such as Jenkins, TeamCity, CruiseControl, and BuildBot). For CI, they pretty much have the same set of capabilities, and can perform the following tasks:
- Hook onto events and perform predefined tasks when triggered. For instance, when a new Git commit is pushed to the repository, the CI server would build the application and run the tests.
- Run tasks in a clean, standalone environment.
- Chain tasks together so that some tasks are triggered on the completion of the previous tasks. For instance, after the tests have finished, email the build and tests results to all developers.
- Store history of ...
