CloudShell Colony sandboxes are available ‘as-a-service’ to your CI/CD pipeline. Using our pipeline plugins and API you can launch sandboxes as part of your automated tests (just as you would do for manual testing).
For more information about CloudShell Colony's place in your pipeline, see CloudShell Colony in your CI/CD Pipeline.
To launch sandboxes from your pipeline:
- Install Colony's pipeline plugin (Install the Jenkins plugin / Install the TeamCity plugin/ Install the Azure DevOps (VSTS) plugin)
- Launch sandboxes from your pipeline using the integrated pipeline plugin and our API (Launch from Jenkins Pipeline/ Launch from TeamCity Pipeline/ Launch from Azure DevOps (VSTS) pipeline)