Continuous Integration Design

The design decisions made in Automated Build Triggering and Abstraction Layer For Automation must now be merged in order to create a complete design for the continuous integration system.

Design Decisions

• Observation of Git-Repositories
• Trigger specific builds on changes
• Distributed Architecture of Scheduler and Executors

Candidates

The topic continous integration has received a proper amount of attention from the open source community, and there are a couple of source projects available that could possibly deliver the needed functionality. The following list of continuous integration systems shall be evaluated in order to find the best suiting system. All of the candidates are open source projects:

• Buildbot
• Gitlab-CI
• Jenkins