Building and managing artifacts

- [Instructor] After linting and checking our code, … the next stage in our pipeline is the build process. … The purpose of the build step, … is to compile a projects code … and any dependencies into some sort of binary package. … Binary simply means that the project's code … has been transformed from a text representation … into some sort of machine readable format. … For example, a C++ project would use the new C compiler … as a build tool for compiling code into executable. … It builds step that creates archives … would use tools like Zip, TAR and RPM … to collect groups of files into a package. … And in our case, we'll be using Docker as a build tool … to create file system layers … that would become a container image. … These binaries, archives and images are known as artifacts. … artifacts are intended to exist beyond the life … of the bill process. … artifacts are stored in registries, … keep them accessible. … Not only do registries provide storage, … they also track metadata about artifacts …