Fifteen Minutes Before the First Test
The pipeline had two stages that had nothing to do with code: provision and deprovision. Between them, in sequence, came phpunit, phpmetrics, and behat. stages: - build - provision - phpunit - phpmetrics - behat - deprovision - deploy Before the first assertion ran, fifteen minutes had passed. Terraform had cloned an infrastructure repository, authenticated to Azure, and applied a VM configuration. Ansible had connected to the new VM, installed PHP, configured the application, wired up a database and a Redis instance. Then the tests ran. Then Terraform destroyed what Ansible had built. ...