Jenkins Essential Training

Course details

If you want to build, deploy, and implement continuous delivery as code, you’ve likely heard about Jenkins, the popular DevOps suite known for its open-source extensibility and ease of use. Jenkins also lets you automate your entire enterprise as a software delivery pipeline. In this course, instructor Michael Jenkins shows you the fundamentals of navigating the platform so you can start automating builds and testing and securing deployments.

Learn about the core functions of Jenkins, progressing from intermediate to more advanced use cases and highlighting best practices and customization tips. Find out how to create a pipeline, integrate Jenkins with version control systems, distribute agents like Docker containers, run and publish tests, produce artifacts for review, and secure your DevOps loop by configuring users and permissions. Try out your new skills along the way in the challenges at the end of each section.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - From code to production with Jenkins
02 - What you should know

1. Jenkins and DevOps

03 - Jenkins and the DevOps lifecycle
04 - Challenge - Deploy a Jenkins server
05 - Solution - Deploy a Jenkins server

2. The Jenkins Pipeline

06 - Create a pipeline project
07 - Create a declarative pipeline
08 - Use the pipeline Snippet Generator
09 - Use variables in a pipeline
10 - Parameterize a pipeline
11 - Use conditional expressions and manual approvals
12 - Challenge - Develop a parameterized pipeline
13 - Solution - Develop a parameterized pipeline

3. Integrate Jenkins with Version Control Systems

14 - Pipeline as code with Jenkinsfile
15 - Connect Jenkins to GitHub
16 - Run scripts from the pipeline
17 - Add a status badge to Markdown files
18 - Challenge - Connect Jenkins to GitHub
19 - Solution - Connect Jenkins to GitHub

4. Agents and Distributed Builds

20 - Distribute builds with agents
21 - Add an SSH agent to Jenkins
22 - Add Docker agents to Jenkins
23 - Challenge - Improve a Docker agent pipeline
24 - Solution - Improve a Docker agent pipeline

5. Artifacts and Testing

25 - Artifacts and fingerprinting
26 - Publish test results and code coverage reports
27 - Use test results to stop a build
28 - Challenge - Create artifacts and reports
29 - Solution - Create artifacts and reports

6. Securing Jenkins

30 - Secure Jenkins with user accounts
31 - Configure project-based permissions
32 - Use secrets and credentials
33 - Challenge - Configure users and permissions
34 - Solution - Configure users and permissions

Conclusion

35 - Next steps