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Build Trust in Your Build-to-Deployment Flow!
Summary
Baruch Sadogursky demonstrates automated building techniques using Maven/Gradle/Custom scripts and Binary Repository along with common pitfalls that are to be avoided.
Bio
Baruch Sadogursky recently joined JFrog as the Community Advocate, contributing to the strong collaboration with leading open-source projects such as SpringSource, Grails and Gradle by providing them with the Artifactory Cloud platform, and fueling the Continuous-Integration ecosystem with plugins Jenkins, TeamCity & Bamboo. Blog: blogs.jfrog.org & blog.sadogursky.com Tweeter:@jbaruch.
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Community comments
great job
by Stanislav Tyurikov,
Re: great job
by Baruch Sadogursky,
Don't change binaries!
by Esko Luontola,
great job
by Stanislav Tyurikov,
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I saw this presentation at the JavaOne days in Moscow. Thanks for the T-shirt, Baruch! Good luck!
Re: great job
by Baruch Sadogursky,
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Thanks!
Don't change binaries!
by Esko Luontola,
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The approach of changing a snapshot into a release by modifying the version number is risky. It requires modifying the binaries, in which case they are not anymore the same binaries. Modifying a binary has the same risks as in creating a new build from the source. A better approach is to get rid of snapshots and only create release builds, and then select (automatically or manually) that which of those binaries to promote to production as is.
Here is one example of how it can be done: Continuous Delivery with Maven and Go into Maven Central