Effortless Parsing of Build Specifications - Designing CI/CD Systems
Every code repository is different. The execution environment, the framework, the deliverables, or even the linters, all need some sort of customization. Creating a flexible build system requires a mechanism that specifies the steps to follow at different stages of a pipeline.
As the next chapter in the Comprehensive CI/CD Pipeline and System Design series, this article examines which instructions you’ll want to convey to your custom system and how to parse them. The focus is around a common solution, adding a file into the repository’s root directory that’s read by your execution engine when receiving new webhooks.
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