Jenkins Automation Essentials

2 Days

12 CPD hours

DevOps Engineers
Software Developers
Telecommunications Professionals
Architects
Quality Assurance & Site Reliability Professionals

Automate basic freestyle projects
Jenkins Pipelines and Groovy Programming
Software lifecycle management with Jenkins
Popular plugins
Scaling options
Integrating Jenkins with Git and GitHub (as well as other Software Control Management platforms)
Triggering Jenkins with Webhooks
Deploying into Docker and Kubernetes
CI / CD with Jenkins

This course covers the fundamentals necessary to deploy and utilize the Jenkins automation server. Jenkins enables users to immediately begin automating both their individual and collaborative workflows. Jenkins is a proven solution for a wide variety of tasks ranging from the helpful automation of scripts (such as Python and Ansible) to creating complex pipelines that govern the technical parts of not only Continuous Integration, but Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) as well. Jenkins is free, open source, and easily controlled with a simple web- based UI- it can be expanded by third party plugins and is deployable on nearly any on-site (Linux, Windows and Mac) or cloud platform.

Overview of Jenkins

• Overview of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Understanding Git and GitHub
• Git Branching
• Methods for Installing Jenkins
• Jenkins Dashboard
• Jenkins Jobs
• Getting Started with Freestyle Jobs
• Triggering builds
• HTTP Web Hooks
• Augmenting Jenkins with Plugins
• Overview of Docker and Dockerfile for Building and Launching Images

Pipeline Jobs for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

• Pipeline Build Stage
• Pipeline Testing Stage
• Post Build actions
• SMTP and Other Notifications
• Programming Pipelines with Groovy
• More Groovy Programming Essentials
• Extracting Jenkins Data Analytics to Support Project Management
• Troubleshooting Failures
• Auditing stdout and stderr with Jenkins
• Jenkins REST API
• Controlling Jenkins API with Python
• Jenkins Security
• Scaling Jenkins
• Jenkins CLI
• Building a Kubernetes Cluster and Deploying Jenkins
• How to start successfully using Jenkins to automate aspects of your job the moment this course ends.