Blog Archive, September 2018

Note 2: This article was written before GitHub Actions became publicly available so now it has more of a historic value.

Note: This is a re-worked version of my previous article. I it has been updated based on practical experience and to reflect recent changes in Travis CI.

GitHub supports several cloud-based continuous integration services. One of them is Travis CI that allows to run automated testing and deployment tasks on Linux Ubuntu and macOS. Unfortunately, their Ubuntu environment is quite dated — currently they use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) or Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) while the current LTS release (at the moment of this writing) is Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), so some of the recent language and tooling versions may not be available in Travis CI build environment. (...)