You've decided you want and need Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment (CD)? Before you sign up for a CI/CD service, there are a few things you should consider.
We like deployment tools, obviously. But we also think that version control systems rock! They not only make your life easier – they play a central role in continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment.
While FTP is still quite popular and a common way to transfer files between two computers, it has some serious disadvantages. So, let's try to look at alternatives and why an automated deployment tool is better than FTP – not just for freelance web developers, but also for small web agencies or for larger DevOps teams.
Push, build, deploy – that's our motto. DeployBot helps freelancers and web agencies to create an efficient workflow. We've now released a little tool that makes manual deployment faster: Say hello to the new browser extension.
In this guest blog post we will show you how to setup a Node.js environment on a single Ubuntu 16.04 server.