This course is for course aimed at new developers and operations personnel looking to setup Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines specifically with Jenkins. You should have basic programming experience and working knowledge of test driven development, using the bash command line interface, managing virtual machines with tools like Vagrant and Virtualbox and basic knowledge of Docker images and containers.
Hardware:
For successful completion of this course, students will require computer systems with the following:
- Processor: Intel Core i5 or equivalent
- Memory: Minimum 4 GB RAM
- Hard Disk: Minimum 35 GB
- Internet connection
Software:
- Operating System: Windows (7 SP1 64-bit or higher)
- Browser: Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox (Latest updates installed)
- Docker
- Git
- Python
- Blue Ocean
If you are interested in gaining a good grasp of Jenkins in a systematic and hands-on way by working through a real-world project, then this course is for you.
The course will provide enough knowledge of the following:
- Illustrate continuous integration and continuous delivery concepts
- Analyse how to install and setup Jenkins on Windows
- Administer and secure Jenkins
- Set up projects on Jenkins
- Build continuous delivery pipelines with Jenkins
- Identify how to setup distributed builds and scale Jenkins
LESSON 1- Installing and Setting up Jenkins
- Continuous Delivery
- Installing Jenkins
- The Jenkins Dashboard
- User Management
LESSON 2 Administering Jenkins
- Plugin Management
- Updating & Upgrading Jenkins
- Configuring Jenkins for Production
- Creating a Form with a Select Element
LESSON 3- Jenkins Views and Setting up Freestyle Projects
- Setting up a Freestyle Project
- Setting up a View to Manage our Projects
LESSON 4- Parameterized Projects and Upstream/Downstream Projects
- Configuring Parameters for our Projects
- Creating & Accessing Build Parameters
- Build Triggers
LESSON 5- Multibranch and Declarative Jenkins Pipelines
- The CI Workflow
- The Jenkinsfile
- Creating Multi-Branch Pipelines
LESSON 6- Distributed Builds on Jenkins
- Setting up Our Slaves
- Securely Connecting To Our Slaves
- Configuring Tasks To Run On Our Slaves