Jenkins CI

There are no formal prerequisites for this course

Jenkins CI is a popular open source Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CD) tool. This Jenkins training covers the fundamentals of setting up and getting going with your CI/CD project. Through hands-on exercises, you'll practice how to setup Jenkins environment and Build Jobs. You will also learn how to deploy, install and monitor several tools associated with Jenkins.

Introduction to CI/CD and Jenkins CI

• Review of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Agile approaches and the Scrum Framework
• Benefits of Continuous Integration
• Typical Setup for Continuous integration
• Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment
• Introduction to JenkinsCI

Installing and Configuring Jenkins

• Installing Jenkins
• The Dashboard
• The Jenkins home folder
• User Management and Security
• Plugin Manager
• Configuring tools

Configuring Jenkins Projects

• Freestyle Project Configuration
• Pipeline Project Configuration
• Source Code Management and the Git Plugin
• Build Triggers and Git Hooks
• Workspace Environment Variables
• Parameterized Projects
• Folders
• Views

Jenkins Pipelines

• Types of pipelines: Scripted vs Declarative
• Multi-branch pipelines
• Authoring Scripted pipeline with Groovy
• Authoring Declarative Pipelines
• The Jenkinsfile syntax
• Using Docker in pipeline

Implementing CI/CD pipelines for Java Applications

• Installating Maven, Junit, SonarQube, and Artifactory
• Building a CD pipeline with Maven, Junit, SonarQube, Artifactory, and JMeter
• Configuring a Deployment Server
• Building a Continuous Deployment pipeline on the production server

Distributed Builds with Jenkins

• Overview of distributed builds
• Configure Jenkins master
• Configure agent machines (Slaves)
• Running specific stages by labelling nodes
• Using Docker in Distributed builds

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