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Mastering Jenkins CI/CD

From Basics to Advanced Pipelines

Main Speaker

Yaniv Cohen

Learning Tracks

DevOps

Course ID

42628

Date

01/12/2024

Time

Daily seminar
9:00-16:30

Location

John Bryce ECO Tower, Homa Umigdal 29 Tel-Aviv

Overview

In today’s DevOps landscape, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are essential practices for delivering software quickly and efficiently. This hands-on workshop, “Mastering Jenkins CI/CD: From Basics to Advanced Pipelines,” is designed for DevOps professionals looking to enhance their CI/CD capabilities using Jenkins. Throughout this 8-hour session, participants will start with foundational concepts and gradually progress to advanced Jenkins configurations and pipeline automation. The workshop will provide practical, hands-on experience in setting up and managing Jenkins pipelines, integrating with popular tools and platforms, and implementing Jenkins as Code for streamlined, repeatable configurations. Participants will leave with a solid understanding of Jenkins’ capabilities, best practices for CI/CD workflows, and the skills to implement and optimize Jenkins pipelines in real-world environments.

Key Focus Areas:
- Hands-On Learning: Direct interaction with Jenkins to build and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
- Progressive Complexity: Start with foundational skills and progress to advanced Jenkins features.
- Real-World Applications: Practical exercises and scenarios tailored to real-world DevOps environments.

Who Should Attend

DevOps professionals needing to build and optimize CI/CD pipelines.

Prerequisites

Course Contents

Introduction to Jenkins Pipelines
- Overview of Jenkins and its role in CI/CD.
- New features in Jenkins 2.473.
- Jenkins architecture and components.
- Hands-On: Creating and running a simple Freestyle Job.
- Introduction to Declarative and Scripted Pipelines.
- Hands-On: Create a basic pipeline using Declarative syntax.
Intermediate Jenkins Pipelines
- Advanced Pipeline Features: Parallel and Sequential Stages.
- Using environment variables and credentials.
- Handling Errors, Failures, and Retries.
- Conditional Execution and When Conditions.
- Hands-On: Implement advanced pipeline features (parallel stages, error handling, etc.) in a Jenkinsfile.
Integrating Jenkins with External Tools
- Tool Integration: Slack, Jira, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes.
- API Calls: Using HTTP requests or specific plugins to communicate with external services during the pipeline.
- Hands-On: Enhance a pipeline by integrating with external tools (e.g., Docker and Slack notifications).

Afternoon Session:

Jenkins as Code

- Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasC) Basics.
- Managing Jenkins Configuration using JCasC.
- Using Jenkinsfile for Pipeline as Code.
- Hands-On: Configure Jenkins using JCasC, create a repository for Jenkins configuration, and implement a pipeline using Jenkinsfile.

Integrating Jenkins with Container Technologies

- Building Docker Images within Jenkins Pipelines.
- Multistage Docker Builds: Benefits and best practices.
- Running Jenkins Pipelines inside Containers: Isolating environments for consistency.
- Hands-On: Create a Jenkins pipeline that builds a Docker image using multistage builds.

Advanced Jenkins Security and Best Practices

- Securing Jenkins (user roles, authorization, and authentication).
- Best practices for credentials management.
- Hands-On: Secure a Jenkins instance by setting up user roles and managing credentials.

Wrap-up and Q&A

- Recap of key concepts and workshop learnings.
- Discussion of real-world scenarios and best practices for CI/CD workflows.
- Open Q&A session.
- Next steps and additional resources.