Travis CI is a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platform that enables developers to quickly and easily build, test and deploy code. The easy-of-use and flexibility offered by Travis CI is core to software development as part of a modern DevOps toolchain.

As a continuous integration platform, Travis CI supports your development process by automatically building and testing code changes, providing immediate feedback on the success of the change. Travis CI can also automate other parts of your development process by managing deployments and notifications.

A build. yml file specifies the structure, type, and names for package contents. Below is the general syntax of the build.yml file: contents: GROUP_NAME: # transform: optional. applies recursively to child nodes.

Travis. yml , which is a YAML format text file, to the root directory of the repository. This file specifies the programming language used, the desired building and testing environment (including dependencies which must be installed before the software can be built and tested), and various other parameters.