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Using AL-Go with GitHub to Simplify CI/CD for Business Central

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Introduction In today’s fast-moving world of software development, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) are key to building and releasing updates quickly and reliably. For Business Central developers, AL-Go for GitHub makes this process easy by using GitHub Actions to automate builds, testing, and deployments. It comes with ready-to-use templates that help you set up a complete CI/CD pipeline in minutes so you can focus more on coding and less on managing workflows. Each build typically takes around 20 minutes when using containers, which fits comfortably within GitHub’s free limits for most projects 2,000 minutes per month for private repositories on the Free tier, 3,000 minutes on the Team tier, and up to 50,000 minutes on the Enterprise tier. Since public repositories get unlimited free minutes, AL-Go for GitHub offers an affordable and powerful way to maintain professional DevOps practices without extra costs. Overall, it’s a simple, cost-efficient, and deve...
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