Accessing build artifacts

As well as compiling, testing, and validating your source code, builds can also be used to generate what are called artifacts. Artifacts are the outputs from a build and can be anything that you want to save and publish from a build, such as test results and application packages.

An application package is intended to be an immutable build of a version of your application. This package can later be picked up in a release and deployed to one or more environments:

In the preceding screenshot, you can see, as part of the summary of an executed build, that there were two artifacts published. Artifacts can be accessed from either the Artifacts drop-down menu at the top-right corner of the screen or from the Summary tab. You can download and explore artifacts from this page and, in the next chapter, you will see how to work with them to set up continuous delivery.

Great! With this, you have learned how to create a definition using the visual designer. But wait—as we mentioned earlier, there is another way of doing this, which is by using YAML files. Let's see how this works in the next section.