CI/CD for C/C++

With Buddy, you can create a pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys C++ applications on a push to Git. The configuration is super simple and takes 10 to 15 minutes.

Example C++ pipeline

1. Select your Git repository

Buddy supports all popular Git hosting providers, including GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab. You can also use your own private Git server, or host code directly on Buddy.

Supported Git providers

2. Add a new delivery pipeline

Enter the pipeline's name, select the trigger mode, and define the branch from which Buddy will fetch your code:

Exemplary pipeline settings

Event-based triggers allow you to run pipelines whenever a push is made to any branch in the repository, or whenever a branch, tag or a pull request is created or deleted. On event pipeline trigger mode

3. Add actions

Buddy lets you choose from dozens of predefined actions. In this example, we'll add 4 actions that will perform the following tasks:

• Compile your C/C++ application with GCC
• Upload code to the server together with compiled assets
• Restart application
• Send notification to Slack

3.1 Build your C/C++ application

Look up and click GCC on the action list to add it to the pipeline:

Action list

The Run tab lets you determine the commands to execute. The default commands are:

make clean all$

Build commands console

3.1.2 GCC version

You can change the version of GCC and install missing packages & tools in the runtime environment tab:

GCC action image

If your tests require a database to run, you can attach it in the Services tab: Services tab

3.2 Upload application to the server

The compiled app needs to be uploaded to the server. Head to the Transfer section and select your action (SFTP in our case):

File transfer actions

When adding the action you can choose what and where should be uploaded:

SFTP action configuration

3.3 Restart application on remote

Once that app is deployed, you can run additional commands on your server with the SSH action:

SSH action selection

Enter the commands to execute and configure authentication details:

SSH commands console

3.4 Send notification to Slack

You can configure Buddy to send your team a message after the deployment. In this example we'll use Slack:

Notification actions

If you add this action in the On Failure tab, Buddy will only send the message if something goes wrong with your build or deployment. On failure notification

4. Summary

Congratulations! You have just automated your entire delivery process. Make a push to the selected branch and watch Buddy fetch, build, and deploy your project. With Continuous Delivery applied, you can now focus on what's really important: developing awesome apps! 🔥