This blog outlines the absolute fundamental elements that any competent team needs to ensure smooth operations. It emphasizes the importance of continuous integration, continuous deployment, running effective unit tests, comprehensive code reviews, and the ability to run the system locally. The objective here is not to over-complicate procedures, but to streamline consistent quality through these five basic yet crucial practices which when implemented should mark an effective team.
In this blog post, we're going to set up an automated deployment pipeline using CircleCI, GitHub, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. We'll begin by creating a GitHub repository for our Rails application. Next, we're going to help CircleCI understand our build environment by creating a `circle.yml` file to install the AWS EB CLI tools and to define commands for deploying our application. Lastly, we'll set up the required AWS credentials in CircleCI. Once completed, any changes pushed to the develop or master branch in GitHub will trigger a deployment to the respective environment in Elastic Beanstalk.