Jenkins Essential Training

Description

In this course you will learn:

• The fundamentals of the platform, including automating builds and testing and securing deployments.
• How to create jobs, trigger builds, and distribute those builds to multiple environments.
• How to add notifications to alert you to build state changes and failures and extend Jenkins with plugins, shared libraries, and APIs.
• How to secure deployments and access to your Jenkins environment, and store artifacts from the build process for safekeeping.
• How to combine multiple stages of the CI/CD process into a single automated pipeline.

Syllabus :

• From code to production with Jenkins
• What you should know
   

1. CI/CD

• Continuous integration and deployment
• Jenkins for continuous deployment
• Chapter Quiz
   

2. Jobs

• Job or build: What's the difference?
• Creating a job definition
• Parameterizing a job
• Creating multiple steps for a job
• Adding scripts as a job step
• Chapter Quiz
   

3. Builds

• Tracking build state
• Polling SCM for build triggering
• Connecting Jenkins to GitHub
• Webhook build triggering
• Chapter Quiz
   

4. Agents and Distributing Builds

• Adding an SSH build agent to Jenkins
• Scaling builds with a cloud service
• Using Docker images for agents
• Configuring specific agents
• Chapter Quiz
   

5. Extending Jenkins

• Adding plugins via plugin manager
• Using shared libraries
• Chapter Quiz
   

6. Notifications

• Notifications of build state
• Build state badges for SCM
• Chapter Quiz
   

7. Testing

• Code coverage tests and reports
• Using test results to stop a build
• Chapter Quiz
   

8. REST API

• Triggering builds via the REST API
• Retrieving build status via the REST API
• Chapter Quiz
   

9. Security

• Securing your deployment with users
• Securing secret credentials and files
• Auditing your environment
• Using folders to create security realms
• Chapter Quiz
   

10. Artifacts

• Creating and storing artifacts
• Fingerprinting for artifact tracking
• Chapter Quiz
   

11. Pipelines

• Automating deployment with pipelines
• Creating pipeline gates
• Job promotion for long-running pipelines
• Multibranch repository automation
• Creating pipelines with snippets
• Discovering global pipeline variables
• Chapter Quiz
   

12. Best Practices

• Distributing builds with agents
• Automating tool installation on agents
• Global libraries for pipelines
• Jenkinsfile as code
• Organizing jobs in views
• Chapter Quiz

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