With as many systems of record available in the cloud– from SaaS applications like Salesforce to Netsuite – the need for a cloud-based enterprise messaging solution has now become necessary to support high availability, scalability, and reliability patterns in an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solution, such as MuleSoft’s CloudHub.
This is second in series of how to DevOps articles, and is a follow-up to the MUnit blog – HowTo(DevOps) – Leveraging MUnit For Test Automation.
A core component of the continuous integration process, that includes the previously discussed test automation framework, is the build process. As soon as the developer commits the code to version control repository, the build tool compiles the source code runs unit and integration tests and generates feedback for the developers.
Traditional integration platforms could get away with providing some command line tools to automate the build and deployment of applications built on their platform. But in the modern world, integration platforms need to encompass the critical API management & cloud components as well, so the scope of continuous integration and continuous delivery tools are no longer just limited to integration applications only.
This also requires support for provisioning integration software and applications in private or public cloud platforms and capability to automate governance of deployed applications.
