COMPRESSEDfm 75 | DevOps and Setting up a CICD Pipeline
In this episode, Amy talks through the details of Dev Operations and setting up a CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) pipeline on a recent project, using RedwoodJS, Husky, Postgres, Render, and GitHub Integrations.
Sponsors
ZEAL
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Vercel
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Show Notes
- 00:00 Introduction
- 03:40 Amy's Rant On Work Life Balance
- 06:56 What is DevOps?
- 08:11 James Alternative Definition of DevOps
- 10:37 DevOps Workflows of the Past
- 13:00 CI/CD Pipelines + Vercel
- 14:17 Sponsor: Vercel
- 15:24 Amy's Experience with Redwood.js
- 16:35 Readme.so
- 17:12 Project Environments and Setup With Docker
- 21:32 Project Setup - Github Projects, Github Actions, Kent C. Dodds Testing Trophy, etc.
- 30:47 Hosting With Render
- 35:01 Database Best Practices with Shipping Code
- 36:43 Sponsor: DatoCMS
- 37:37 Deploy Previews with Render Based on Github PRs
- 44:01 Deploy Redwood.js on Render (Documentation)
- 45:11 Sponsor: ZEAL
- 45:57 Heroku Github Integration Issues
- 49:39 Grab Bag Questions Section
- 50:08 Picks and Plugs
- 52:52 James's Plug - Top 5 Struggles of a Developer Advocate
- 53:44 Create a SvelteKit Blog With Markdown Files
- 57:03 Amy's Plug - Hashnode
- 57:44 Amy's Pick - Matthew McConaughey's book, Greenlights