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Revit API and CI/CD

lee6800 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 15:58:21 GMT

Hello,

I have searched the forum and used google to try and find some instructions / tutorials on how to implement CI/CD on GitHub or GitLab.

I have been looking at the wonderful templates created by Nice3Point and like to understand how they work. Even a flow chart of what happens once you commit a change which triggers an action on github to create a new release(increasing "Version" Value in 'Build.Build.Configuration.cs' in Nice3Point template)

Also what is the best pipeline to use for this purpose.

Thanks for your help in advance

Re: Revit API and CI/CD

BKSpurgeon — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:44:28 GMT

CI / CD is relatively simple - checkout github actions:

https://docs.github.com/en/actions

Re: Revit API and CI/CD

lee6800 — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:37:06 GMT

Than you very much for your reply

while reading various post here, been keep seeing "Azure" mentioned. where does this comes into the equation? Am I correct to assume it is used run to test the code?

Thanks again for your help

Re: Revit API and CI/CD

BKSpurgeon — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:22:39 GMT

Azure would have their own CI / CD product. I have not used Azure for that service. But I imagine they all kinda do similar things. CircleCi is another service provider that is popular in this space.

But I have used Github for web apps and other library code bases. For example, with Github:

you add tests to your code base.
you can set up a workflow like this: every time someone makes a pull request to the master branch - make sure all the tests pass. and if they don't: highlight it, and (possibly):
prevent them from being merged.

You could have a similar set up, such that all tests must pass before deploying.

You could even have a "staging" environment.

I would say that an easy way to experiment with with github.

But if you want to run tests in a revit environment via a CI pipeline - then I cannot answer that question.

Re: Revit API and CI/CD

lee6800 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:23:31 GMT

Thank you very much for your help