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Continuous Delivery with Jenkins 2

Level: advanced

Duration: 2 days

Language: English

This is a two-day practical workshop diving into various aspects of continuous integration/delivery and giving hands-on experience on implementing Jenkins 2 pipelines.

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About the Continuous Delivery with Jenkins 2 Course

Jenkins is a de-facto standard among CI/CD experts and has earned a reputation of being Swiss army knife for all of your automation needs. This is a two-day practical workshop diving into various aspects of continuous integration/delivery and giving hands-on experience on implementing Jenkins 2 pipelines. Managing configuration, planning capacity and agent network, dynamic agents, Docker integration, and many more.

What You'll Learn in This workshop

Create jobs and pipelines of different complexity
Integrate with version control services, web hooks, mail servers, issue tracking systems
Organize tasks with multi-branch pipelines, folders, views, labels, agents
Manage Jenkins server setup and avoid configuration drift

Continuous Delivery with Jenkins 2 Outline

1. Introduction

• CI and CD concepts
• Jenkins overview: jobs, pipelines, builds, queue, triggers, agents
• Fundamentals: job creation and configuration, SCM integration, build environment and tools, parametrized builds and triggers, reporting facilities, useful plugins

2. Pipelines

• Introduction to Groovy
• Pipeline anatomy: steps, stages, nodes, agents, libraries, triggers
• Declarative vs scripted pipelines
• Pipeline elements: build wrappers, notifiers, testing tools, reports, artifact publishing
• Integration with Docker
• Implementing complex pipelines and pipeline patterns

3. Operations

• Security configuration: users, groups, authorization matrix, LDAP integration, useful plugins
• API and scripting: system scripts, resource management, tips and tricks
• Scaling Jenkins: labels, agents, containers, cloud resources
• Managing setup with provisioning tools: Ansible or Puppet
• Multi-master Jenkins installations

What's Included

Unique content - real-life use cases, modern infrastructure, CI/CD/GitOps principles shown in practice.

Certificate of attendance - you will get a shareable online certificate.

Exam after the course - you may pass an optional 1-hour exam and get your score printed on the certificate.

Workshop happens online - join from the convenience of your office or home.

Video recordings will be available after the course - you can revisit some topics later.

Live and interactive - you can ask questions in the chat or over audio and get live clarifications.

Q&A session in the end of each day - you will to get answers to more complex questions in a 1-hour long Q&A session.

Quizzes and polls during the course - learning should be fun!

Practical exercises with solutions - lots of simple and not-so-simple tasks to practice with during the course; Solutions will be provided afterwards.

Additional home work - for those who want to practice more after the course; Homework will be reviewed and supplemented by constructive feedback.

Lifetime e-mail support - you can get answers on anything related to the course content as well as advice based on your company specific situation.