Learning Path: Jenkins: The Road To Effective Jenkins

Fast-track your Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process with Jenkins

What you'll learn

Master the art of Jenkins management like adding a build node, security and plugin management

Work with Git in building and testing your software by effectively configuring Jenkins

Work with automated builds of Jenkins like freestyle project, Git, scheduled builds, and up/downstream jobs

Build and test Java web applicationsIntegrate Docker containers in a Jenkins context

Explore Jenkins Pipeline to build, test, and deploy projects

Requirements

Basic knowledge of the software development life cycle and Java development is needed

Basic understanding of Jenkins is a plus point

Description

Jenkins is the most popular and leading open-source automation server for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery because of its flexibility due to which you can easily use to automate all the steps in your software delivery process on any platform.


This comprehensive 2-in-1 training course is designed to give you a foundation in the concepts of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, and implementing them with Jenkins. It will show you how to set up your CI environment, by installing and configuring Jenkins Master/Nodes, introducing the main parts of the tool, and effectively configuring Jenkins projects to build and test a software application.


Contents and Overview

This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.


The first course, Effective Jenkins: Getting Started with Continuous Integration, covers key concepts of Continuous Integration, as well Continuous Deployment. You will understand the main parts of Jenkins and create different types of Jenkins projects to automate everything that you want. You will finish the first course by looking at a Java web project and creating the necessary steps to build and test it, thereby empowering you to implement it in a real project.


The second course, Effective Jenkins: Continuous Delivery with Jenkins Pipeline, covers key concepts of DevOps and delve into Jenkins Pipeline, a set of plugins that provides a toolkit for designing simple-to-complex delivery pipelines as code. To design a production-ready delivery pipeline, you will start by creating a simple pipeline and understanding Jenkins Pipeline terms and its particularities. Next, you will set up Docker to create isolated build environments. To consolidate your learning, you will create a delivery pipeline to build, test, and deploy a Java web project.


By the end of this training program you’ll be thoroughly equipped with the concepts of Jenkins and will be able to configure Jenkins effectively to build, test, and deploy your software.


About the Author

Rodrigo is a Certified Jenkins Engineer and has 14+ years' experience in software development with different programming languages and technologies in different countries (Brazil, US, Portugal, Germany, and Austria) and projects in companies ranging from financial institution to game and e-commerce ventures including Walmart Goodgame Studios and HERE. He is an enthusiastic practitioner of Agile methodologies, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps, with large-scale adoption experience. He is always seeking to optimize the software development life cycle through automation, process improvements, and developing new tools and techniques. Rodrigo holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a postgraduate qualification in Software Engineering.



Overview

Section 1: Effective Jenkins: Getting Started with Continuous Integration

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 Mastering on Continuous Integration

Lecture 3 Understanding the Continuous Delivery Concepts

Lecture 4 Continuous Delivery Versus Continuous Deployment

Lecture 5 CI, CD, and Continuous Deployment?

Lecture 6 Introducing Jenkins 2

Lecture 7 Installing and Configuring Jenkins

Lecture 8 Jenkins Dashboard

Lecture 9 Jenkins Global Configuration

Lecture 10 Jenkins Security

Lecture 11 Jenkins Plugin Management

Lecture 12 Adding a Build Node

Lecture 13 Jenkins Projects

Lecture 14 Freestyle Projects – Scheduled Builds

Lecture 15 Freestyle Projects – Sending E-mail Notifications

Lecture 16 Working with Git SCM

Lecture 17 Introduction to a Java Web Project

Lecture 18 Upstream and Downstream Projects

Lecture 19 Visualizing the Status of the Builds

Section 2: Effective Jenkins: Continuous Delivery with Jenkins Pipeline

Lecture 20 The Course Overview

Lecture 21 Understanding DevOps

Lecture 22 Converging to a Delivery Pipeline

Lecture 23 Introduction to Jenkins Pipeline

Lecture 24 Reviewing the Jenkins Plugins

Lecture 25 My First Pipeline

Lecture 26 Scripted Pipeline Steps

Lecture 27 Finishing up the Build

Lecture 28 Understanding the Declarative Pipeline

Lecture 29 Understanding the JenkinsFile

Lecture 30 Creating and Configuring the JenkinsFile

Lecture 31 Introduction to Docker

Lecture 32 Installing Docker on the Jenkins Node Server

Lecture 33 Finding out to Use Docker with Jenkins Pipeline

Lecture 34 Introduction to the Java Web Project

Lecture 35 Archiving Artefacts and Fingerprints

Lecture 36 Deploying Our Java Web Project

Java developers, software architects, technical project managers, build manager, or a development or QA engineer