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Travis is a popular, hosted system for automatically creating test environments for open source projects hosted on a GitHub. The word automatic can be a little misleading though – Travis hooks up to the GitHub API, handles spawning new virtual machines (presumably at AWS/EC2), and has a simple domain specific language (DSL) implemented via a
.travis.yml file that allows you to configure your enviornment.
If you have a project similar to yours – copying that project’s .travis.yml file is usually enough to get you started. If you don’t then you’re building an enviornment from scratch, which can be a tedious affair.
The linked GitHub repository offers a sample .travis.yml file for Magento 2 projects. It builds a fully installed Magento 2 system, including PHP, Apache, and MySQL. It also offers configuration variables (and a template) for adding composer hosted Magento modules to the project