Continuous Deployment

Idea

• Once a Merge Request is merged everything happens automatically

• typical use-cases are:

  • releasing a new version

  • building the corresponding apps

  • building new documentation

Purpose

• allow developers to be lazy

• automated processes are less error prone

• maintain documentation in Git

Webhook

A Webhook is an Api Endpoint that you can call in order to make a change on a website.

Simple Example

When you post a comment on Reddit, you trigger a webhook as well. In the background some code puts your comment into some reddit database. Afterwards it makes a call to a Reddit webhook that tells it to fetch the newest state from the database.

Elaborate Example: Read the Docs

A similar use-case is to public your documentation to the internet. Therefore we will establish a webhook on Read the Docs. That means our code versioning system (GitLab) will call the webhook when there are changes.