Identify the roles, responsibilities, and lifecycle of a integration project17% of the exam
DevOps with CI/CD, MUnit and Maven builds
The four DevOps practices MuleSoft names, how a CI/CD pipeline for Mule applications splits work across version control, Maven, MUnit and release tools, and how the Mule Maven plugin and MUnit Maven plugin build, test and deploy an app.
Identify key DevOps practices and tools for building, testing, deploying, and delivering integration solutions.
~6 min read · 4 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Name the key DevOps practices MuleSoft lists: continuous integration, continuous delivery and deployment, automated testing and active monitoring.
- Match each job in a Mule CI/CD pipeline (version control, build, test, issue tracking, release orchestration, runtime configuration) to the tool MuleSoft names for it.
- Explain what MUnit does and how it runs inside a Maven build.
- Describe how the Mule Maven plugin packages and deploys a Mule application to its targets.
Key terms:
- DevOps: a movement with a set of practices that aim to increase collaboration between IT operations and development teams.
- Continuous integration (CI): a practice that automates and makes consistent the way teams build, test and package applications.
- Continuous delivery (CD): automating the delivery of applications and code changes, often to several environments.
- MUnit: MuleSoft's testing framework for unit and integration tests of Mule applications.
- Mule Maven plugin: the plugin that ties packaging and deployment of Mule applications to the Maven lifecycle.
Key facts
CI frequency
- Detail
- Integrate code into a shared repository regularly, preferably daily
Release environments
- Detail
- Jenkins, Puppet, Chef or HP ALM orchestrate releases across dev, test, stage and production
Runtime install and config
- Detail
- Puppet and Chef can automate installing and configuring Mule runtimes
MUnit compatibility
- Detail
- MUnit 3.0 and later works with all Mule versions since 4.3
MUnit reports
- Detail
- Surefire support built in; output to
target/surefire-reports
Coverage default
- Detail
- An undefined coverage level is -1, so the build never fails for it
Deploy targets
- Detail
- CloudHub, CloudHub 2.0, Runtime Fabric, on-premises
Plugin requirement
- Detail
- Without
<extensions>true</extensions>the plugin does not work
- Why does a team need
<extensions>true</extensions>in the Mule Maven plugin declaration? - When does the
deploygoal upload to a repository instead of a runtime target? - Which Mule versions does MUnit 3.0 and later support?
- Why can MUnit tests run without installing separate FTP, database or mail servers?
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