3 CI/CD courses in Leicester

If you know various DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes, and are not sure how they work collaboratively, then this course is for you. Learn to create a simple DevOps project using Git as the local version control system, GitHub as the distributor version control system, Jenkins as the continuous integration tool, Maven as a build tool, Ansible as configuration management and deployment tool, Docker for containerization, Kubernetes as a container management tool, and all this environment is set up on AWS.

This course will teach you the fundamentals of Jenkins and how to continually implement and deploy codes in a DevOps environment. You will also learn how to integrate automated tests to verify the build pipelines and set up code quality reporting.

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for The introductory-level course is geared for software developers, project managers, and IT professionals seeking to enhance their understanding and practical skills in version control and collaboration using GitLab. It's also well-suited for those transitioning from another version control system to GitLab, or those responsible for software development lifecycle within their organization. Whether you are an individual looking to boost your proficiency or a team leader aiming to drive productivity and collaboration, this course will provide the necessary expertise to make the most of GitLab's capabilities. Overview This course combines engaging instructor-led presentations and useful demonstrations with valuable hands-on labs and engaging group activities. Throughout the course you'll: Gain a firm understanding of the fundamentals of Git and GitLab, setting a solid foundation for advanced concepts. Learn to effectively manage and track changes in your code, ensuring a clean and reliable codebase. Discover ways to streamline your daily tasks with aliases, stashing, and other GitLab workflow optimization techniques. Develop skills in creating, merging, and synchronizing branches, enabling seamless collaboration and version control. Equip yourself with the knowledge to use Git as a powerful debugging tool, saving time and effort when troubleshooting issues. Understand the basics of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) in GitLab, helping you automate the software delivery process. Immerse yourself in the dynamic world of GitLab, a leading web-based platform for version control and collaboration, through our intensive two-day course, GitLab Quick Start. Version control systems, such as GitLab, are the backbone of modern software development, enabling teams to work cohesively and maintain a structured workflow. By mastering GitLab, you can improve efficiency, encourage collaboration, and ensure accuracy and reliability within your projects, adding significant value to your organization. Throughout the course you?ll explore various aspects of GitLab, starting from the fundamental principles of source code management to advanced concepts like rebasing and continuous integration/design. Key topics covered include Git and GitLab basics, reviewing and editing commit history, mastering GitFlow and GitLab Flow, branching and merging strategies, and understanding remote repositories. You'll also learn how to utilize Git as a debugging tool and explore the power of GitLab's built-in CI/CD capabilities. The core value of this course lies in its practical application. You'll learn how to effectively manage changes in code with GitLab, allowing you to maintain audit trails, create reproducible software, and seamlessly move from another version control system. Then you?ll learn how to enhance your workflow efficiency using aliases for common commands, saving changes for later use, and ignoring build artifacts. You?ll also explore GitLab's CI/CD, which will enable you to automate your software delivery process. These hands-on labs will walk you through creating, merging, and synchronizing remote branches, configuring Git, troubleshooting using Git as a debugging tool, and setting up GitLab Runner for CI/CD. Each lab is designed to simulate real-world projects, offering you a first-hand experience in managing and contributing to a version control system like GitLab. Introduction to Source Code Management The Core Principles of Change Management The Power to Undo Changes Audit Trails and Investigations Reproducible Software Changing code-hosting platform Moving from another version control system Git and GitLab Introduction and Basics Introduction to Git GitFlow GitLab Flow Trees and Commits Configuring Git Adding, Renaming, and Removing Files Reviewing and Editing the Commit History Reviewing the Commit History Revision Shortcuts Fixing Mistakes Improving Your Daily Workflow Simplifying Common Commands with Aliases Ignoring Build Artifacts Saving Changes for Later Use (Stashing) Branching Branching Basics Listing Differences Between Branches Visualizing Branches Deleting Branches Tagging Merging Merging Basics Merge Conflicts Merging Remote Branches Remote Repositories Remote Repositories Synchronizing Objects with Remotes Tracking Branches Centralizing and Controlling Access Introduction to GitLab Git Repositories on GitLab Daily Workflow Reviewing Branching and Merging Branch Review Merging Basics Rebasing Rebasing Basics Rebasing with Local Branches Rebasing with Remote Branches Interactive Rebasing Squashing Commits Getting Out of Trouble Git as a Debugging Tool Using the Blame Command to See File History Performing a Binary Search Continuous Integration / Continuous Design (CI/CD) How to install GitLab Runner Adding to our example project Breaking down .gitlab-ci.yml Adding .gitlab-ci.yml to our example project Deconstructing an advanced .gitlab-ci.yml file GitLab CI/CD web UI Optional: Resetting Trees Introduction to Resetting Resetting Branch Pointers Resetting Branches and the Index Resetting the Working Directory Making Good Use of the Reset Command Optional More on Improving Your Daily Workflow Interactively Staging Changes Optional: Including External Repositories Submodules Subtrees Choosing Between Submodules and Subtrees Workflow Management Branch Management

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for DevOps Engineers Software Developers Telecommunications Professionals Architects Quality Assurance & Site Reliability Professionals Overview 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.

Do you want to build a CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications or microservices on AKS and EKS Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Jenkinsfile? Then you are in the right place.

Learn GitHub Actions in a weekend! This course covers all the important concepts to help you master GitHub Actions and its practical applications. Gain in-demand skills, design a CI/CD pipeline, and deploy infra as code with GitHub Actions. Boost your career with this essential skill for DevOps practices.

Learn to use DevOps tools from an industrial point of view. This course will help you get a firsthand experience of what it is like to be a DevOps engineer. Create DevOps CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, SonarQube, and Kubernetes on AWS. Start your DevOps journey today. This course has been created from the perspective of a DevOps engineer who doesn't typically write application code.

Master Azure DevOps and Git for seamless, efficient software delivery. This comprehensive course covers everything from basic project management concepts to advanced continuous delivery techniques in Azure DevOps, tailored for technical professionals.

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for: DevOps engineers DevOps architects Operations engineers System administrators Developers Overview In this course, you will learn to: Use DevOps best practices to develop, deliver, and maintain applications and services at high velocity on AWS List the advantages, roles and responsibilities of small autonomous DevOps teams Design and implement an infrastructure on AWS that supports DevOps development projects Leverage AWS Cloud9 to write, run and debug your code Deploy various environments with AWS CloudFormation Host secure, highly scalable, and private Git repositories with AWS CodeCommit Integrate Git repositories into CI/CD pipelines Automate build, test, and packaging code with AWS CodeBuild Securely store and leverage Docker images and integrate them into your CI/CD pipelines Build CI/CD pipelines to deploy applications on Amazon EC2, serverless applications, and container-based applications Implement common deployment strategies such as 'all at once,' 'rolling,' and 'blue/green' Integrate testing and security into CI/CD pipelines Monitor applications and environments using AWS tools and technologies DevOps Engineering on AWS teaches you how to use the combination of DevOps cultural philosophies, practices, and tools to increase your organization?s ability to develop, deliver, and maintain applications and services at high velocity on AWS. This course covers Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), infrastructure as code, microservices, monitoring and logging, and communication and collaboration. Hands-on labs give you experience building and deploying AWS CloudFormation templates and CI/CD pipelines that build and deploy applications on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), serverless applications, and container-based applications. Labs for multi-pipeline workflows and pipelines that deploy to multiple environments are also included. Module 0: Course overview Course objective Suggested prerequisites Course overview breakdown Module 1: Introduction to DevOps What is DevOps? The Amazon journey to DevOps Foundations for DevOps Module 2: Infrastructure automation Introduction to Infrastructure Automation Diving into the AWS CloudFormation template Modifying an AWS CloudFormation template Demonstration: AWS CloudFormation template structure, parameters, stacks, updates, importing resources, and drift detection Module 3: AWS toolkits Configuring the AWS CLI AWS Software Development Kits (AWS SDKs) AWS SAM CLI AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) AWS Cloud9 Demonstration: AWS CLI and AWS CDK Hands-on lab: Using AWS CloudFormation to provision and manage a basic infrastructure Module 4: Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) with development tools CI/CD Pipeline and Dev Tools Demonstration: CI/CD pipeline displaying some actions from AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodePipeline Hands-on lab: Deploying an application to an EC2 fleet using AWS CodeDeploy AWS CodePipeline Demonstration: AWS integration with Jenkins Hands-on lab: Automating code deployments using AWS CodePipeline Module 5: Introduction to Microservices Introduction to Microservices Module 6: DevOps and containers Deploying applications with Docker Amazon Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate Amazon Elastic Container Registry and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes service Demonstration: CI/CD pipeline deployment in a containerized application Module 7: DevOps and serverless computing AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate AWS Serverless Application Repository and AWS SAM AWS Step Functions Demonstration: AWS Lambda and characteristics Demonstration: AWS SAM quick start in AWS Cloud9 Hands-on lab: Deploying a serverless application using AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) and a CI/CD Pipeline Module 8: Deployment strategies Continuous Deployment Deployments with AWS Services Module 9: Automated testing Introduction to testing Tests: Unit, integration, fault tolerance, load, and synthetic Product and service integrations Module 10: Security automation Introduction to DevSecOps Security of the Pipeline Security in the Pipeline Threat Detection Tools Demonstration: AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, and Amazon Inspector Module 11: Configuration management Introduction to the configuration management process AWS services and tooling for configuration management Hands-on lab: Performing blue/green deployments with CI/CD pipelines and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Module 12: Observability Introduction to observability AWS tools to assist with observability Hands-on lab: Using AWS DevOps tools for CI/CD pipeline automations Module 13: Reference architecture (Optional module) Reference architectures Module 14: Course summary Components of DevOps practice CI/CD pipeline review AWS Certification