Build

This is a very important point because this is the last step in which a failure can be located without affecting the end user. One of the pillars of microservices architecture is processing automation. To build and deploy is no different.

The time to build is usually the last stage before moving the application to a particular environment, a quality environment, or stage production.

In microservices, all must have high coverage for unit testing, functional testing, and integration testing. It seems obvious to say, but many development teams do not end up paying too much attention to automated testing and suffer for it later.

To automate the application build process, and consequently, the application deployment, is fundamentally a good continuous integration tool or CI. In this respect, one of the most mature, complete, and efficient tools is Jenkins. Jenkins is a free and open source project. It is extremely configurable, being able to fully automate processes.

There are other options like Travis. Travis works online with a CI and is completely free for open source projects. Something interesting in Travis, is the great compatibility that it has with GitHub.

The most important factor of working with a CI is properly setting up the application testing process, because, as has been said before, this is the last stage to capture failures before affecting the end user of our product. The CI is the best place for the integration of microservices tests.