Intermediate Jenkins: Automate, Integrate, and Secure CI/CD Workflows at Scale

Course details

This intermediate course empowers you to take your CI/CD management skills to the next level with Jenkins. Discover how to set up and configure Jenkins pipelines using declarative syntax and conditional logic. Learn to integrate Jenkins with version control systems like GitHub to automate your workflows. Enhance automation with distributed builds using agents and Docker containers, ensuring scalable implementation. Gain insights into managing artifacts and publishing test results efficiently. Secure your Jenkins environment with user accounts, project-based permissions, and secrets management to safeguard sensitive data. Ideal for DevOps practitioners, application developers, and technical professionals seeking a more robust DevOps automation platform, this course enables you to deploy, operate, and maintain production-ready CI/CD systems using Jenkins.

Learning objectives
Deploy, configure, and secure a Jenkins server to automate software builds and deployments.
Design and implement pipelines using declarative syntax, parameters, and conditional logic.
Integrate Jenkins with version control systems like GitHub to automate CI/CD workflows.
Configure distributed builds using agents and Docker containers for scalable automation.
Manage artifacts, test results, and credentials to ensure secure, reliable, and traceable automation.

Concepts

Introduction

From code to production with Jenkins
Deploy a Jenkins server

The Jenkins Pipeline

Create a pipeline project
Use build steps in a pipeline
Use the pipeline snippet generator
Use variables in a pipeline
Parameterize a pipeline
Use conditional expressions and manual approvals
Solution - Develop a parameterized pipeline

Integrate Jenkins with Version Control Systems

Pipeline as code with Jenkinsfile
Connect Jenkins to GitHub
Run scripts from the pipeline
Solution - Connect Jenkins to GitHub

Agents and Distributed Builds

Distribute builds with agents
Add an SSH agent to Jenkins
Add Docker agents to Jenkins
Solution - Improve a Docker agent pipeline

Artifacts and Testing

Artifacts and fingerprinting
Publish test results and code coverage reports
Use test results to stop a pipeline
Use AI to analyze errors
Solution - Create artifacts and reports

Securing Jenkins

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