# Continuous Integration

One of the advantages of Evennia over traditional MU* development systems is that Evennia can integrate into enterprise-level integration environments and source control.

## What is Continuous Integration (CI)?

Continuous Integration (CI) is a development practice that requires developers to integrate code into a shared repository. Each check-in is then verified by an automated build, allowing teams to detect problems early. This can be set up to safely deploy data to a production server only after tests have passed, for example.

For Evennia, continuous integration allows an automated build process to:

- Pull down a latest build from Source Control.

- Run migrations on the backing SQL database.

- Automate additional unique tasks for that project.

- Run unit tests.

- Publish those files to the server directory

- Reload the game.

## List of continuous integration tools

There are a lot of tools and services providing CI functionality. Here are a few that people have used with Evennia:

- Continuous integration with Travis
- Continuous Integration - TeamCity (linux)

This is an overview of other tools (external link).