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Homework Part 2: Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

In this assignment we focus on DevOps best practices, such as version control and deployment automation.

• Requirements
• Description
• Success criteria
• Artifacts to be provided
• Bonus points

Requirements

1. GitHub or GitLab account
2. A free GCP account

Description

Create a simple Google App Engine deployment - Hello World or similar. Configure Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) using a tool of your preference (e.g., Github Actions, Gitlab CI, CircleCI, TravisCI, Jenkins) to perform the following:

1. Update the Google App Engine deployment in your GCP account
2. Test the deployment using curl or similar

Success criteria

1. A Google App Engine deployment is publicly available
2. CI/CD is used to continuously deploy changes to the code

Artifacts to be provided

Link to the git repository, demonstration of code flow and CI/CD.

Bonus points

1. Create a staging deployment
2. Define a local development environment
3. Define unit tests and other testing suites in CI