Learning Jenkins: Automating Software Development and System Administration

Course details

Do you need to automate tasks as part of your software development, system administration, or engineering work? This course introduces you to Jenkins, a highly configurable application used to automate software development and system administration tasks, and helps you build confidence in using it. Join instructor Michael Jenkins as he covers how to set up a personal installation of Jenkins and familiarize yourself with the program’s interface. Michael steps through how to configure your first job in Jenkins. After you get some experience with jobs, he shows you how to work with job workspaces, artifacts, and parameters. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to organize jobs in folders and views, and you’ll be introduced to the concept of pipelines as code.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Kickstart your DevOps journey with Jenkins
02 - Why choose Jenkins
03 - Prerequisites and key terms

1. Installing Jenkins

04 - System requirements
05 - Finish a Jenkins installation
06 - The Jenkins user interface
07 - Manage plugins
08 - Manage tools
09 - Solution - Set up a Jenkins server on Windows

2. Jenkins Jobs

10 - Your first jenkins job
11 - Job types
12 - Build description and source code management
13 - Build triggers
14 - The build environment
15 - Run and monitor jobs
16 - Run and monitor jobs using console output
17 - Monitor build trends
18 - Solution - Automate system monitoring with Jenkins

3. Job Workspaces, Artifacts, and Parameters

19 - Using a global build tool
20 - Browse a job's workspace
21 - Manage artifacts
22 - Parameters and environment variables
23 - String parameters
24 - Choice parameters
25 - Boolean parameters
26 - Schedule jobs
27 - Solution - Use a build tool and parameters

4. Organize Jobs with Views and Folders

28 - Views and folders
29 - Create a view
30 - Create a folder
31 - Search with the command palette
32 - Delete views and folders
33 - Solution - Create folders and views

Conclusion

34 - Pipeline as code
35 - Build agents and cloud runners
36 - Next steps with Jenkins