In this post, I’ll modify the pipeline from the previous posts to use a Docker registry powered by AWS ECR (Amazon Elastic Container Registry).

In this post, I’ll add code coverage to the build pipeline and configure TeamCity to break the build if the code coverage drops.

In this post, I’ll add unit tests to the example application that I’ve been fiddling around with in the recent posts.

In this post, I’ll add some automated browser tests using PhantomJS and WebdriverIO.

In this post, I’ll implement a post deployment check that waits until the application is running with the expected version. The first step is to make the application aware of its version. The easiest way to do that in our setup is with an environment variable. We’ll modify the deployment template of the Helm chart:

According to Wikipedia, a smoke test is a preliminary test that reveals simple failures severe enough to (for example) reject a prospective software release. The process of smoke testing aims to determine whether the application is so badly broken as to make further immediate testing unnecessary. If we consider our dockerized blog-helm web application, a possible smoke test can be: can we pull the image from the registry? If we run the image, does the container stay alive or does it crash immediately? In this post, I’ll implement this in an extra build configuration in TeamCity with a generic bash script doing the actual work.

In a previous post, I had configured a deployment build configuration in TeamCity. I had mentioned back then that it’s possible to set it up in a different way, which makes it is easier to visualize the deployment pipeline across all environments. In this post, I’ll modify that deployment pipeline to use snapshot dependencies and project templates.

In my recent blog posts I’ve played a lot with TeamCity. Often, when I want to blog about something, I end up doing some irrelevant yak shaving, which sometimes is also interesting. In this post I’ll show how I’m currently setting up TeamCity locally on my laptop.