What is CI and why use it?

Re:What is CI and why use it? by PhilipA on Thursday July 17, 2014 @02:36PM (#8049315)

The hosted CI solutions like CircleCI looks good, but letting them control my code and do the deployment, really requires quite a bit of trust. It is another chain who can have a security breach, which could let intruders have access to my code.

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Re:What is CI and why use it? by fredsters_s on Thursday July 17, 2014 @02:39PM (#8049334)

Like with all these things it's a trade-off. If security is important to you above everything else, then yeah, host it yourself and spend the extra time. But this is true for only a tiny % of startups.

Also, you're assuming that you're better able to secure this stuff than they are. Which doesn't seem obvious to me.

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Re:What is CI and why use it? by grosskur on Thursday July 17, 2014 @04:34PM (#8050050)

There's also Buildbox, which is a hosted CI engine and web interface. It uses agents that you run and control yourself:

https://buildbox.io/

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Re:What is CI and why use it? by PhilipA on Friday July 18, 2014 @01:29AM (#8051810)

Thanks, will look into it!

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