Jenkins Essential Training

Discover the power of Jenkins, the DevOps platform that lets you automate builds, test and secure deployments, and create a continuous integration and secure delivery pipeline.

Introduction

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

1. Jenkins and DevOps

• Jenkins and the DevOps lifecycle
• Challenge: Deploy a Jenkins server
• Solution: Deploy a Jenkins server

2. The Jenkins Pipeline

• Create a pipeline project
• Create a declarative pipeline
• Use the pipeline Snippet Generator
• Use variables in a pipeline
• Parameterize a pipeline
• Use conditional expressions and manual approvals
• Challenge: Develop a parameterized pipeline
• Solution: Develop a parameterized pipeline

3. Integrate Jenkins with Version Control Systems

• Pipeline as code with Jenkinsfile
• Connect Jenkins to GitHub
• Run scripts from the pipeline
• Add a status badge to Markdown files
• Challenge: Connect Jenkins to GitHub
• Solution: Connect Jenkins to GitHub

4. Agents and Distributed Builds

• Distribute builds with agents
• Add an SSH agent to Jenkins
• Add Docker agents to Jenkins
• Challenge: Improve a Docker agent pipeline
• Solution: Improve a Docker agent pipeline

5. Artifacts and Testing

• Artifacts and fingerprinting
• Publish test results and code coverage reports
• Use test results to stop a build
• Challenge: Create artifacts and reports
• Solution: Create artifacts and reports

6. Securing Jenkins

• Secure Jenkins with user accounts
• Configure project-based permissions
• Use secrets and credentials
• Challenge: Configure users and permissions
• Solution: Configure users and permissions

Conclusion

• Next steps