Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment

• DevOps Culture
• DevOps Tools overview
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Deployment
• Delivery vs. Deployment

Introduction to Jenkins

• What is Jenkins?
• Why Jenkins?
• Key aspects of Jenkins

Jenkins architecture

• Jenkins architecture
• Jenkins Terminology

Installing Jenkins

• Prerequisites
• Installation steps

Hands-on Lab: Installing Jenkins on the assigned machines

Overview of the Jenkins UI

• Main menu explained
• New item menu
• People menu
• Build history menu
• Manage Jenkins menu
• My Views menu
• Job Status and job store

Demo:

• Walkthrough the different menus and UI elements of Jenkins
• Learn what different icons mean and where you should go when searching for various information

Jenkins server configuration

• Manage Plugins
• Configure Credentials
• Configure System
• System Information
• Global Tool Configuration

Demo:

• Installing new plugins and checking what plugins are already installed on the server
• Learn where you can find the various configuration options for those plugins.

Creating your first Job

• Jenkins job Terminology
• Your first Jenkins job walkthrough
• Post-build actions
• Build other projects

Hands-on Lab:

• Creating Jobs in Jenkins
• Use Jenkins to create a set of simple tasks that the server should be able to execute
• Learn how different jobs can trigger the execution of other jobs and what kind of information does Jenkins expose for each task that has been executed

Environmental variables 

• What is an environment variable?
• Environment variable types
• Access the value of a variable
• Local vs. Global

Parameterized jobs

• What are Parameterized jobs?
• Create simple Parameter
• POST Method
• Trigger other build with parameters

Hands-on Lab:

• Parameterized Jobs
• Learn how to use parameters for your Jenkins jobs and also make use of the available environment variables
• Customize the type of the parameters and create dynamic ones by making use of available plugins and scripting
• Pass parameters to other Jenkins jobs programmatically

Email integration for notification

• E-mail Service Configuration
• E-mail Notifier
• E-mail extension Plugin

Demo:

• Integrate Jenkins with Gmail services
• Short introduction to the types of configurations needed to configure an email server with your Jenkins server. These steps can be used to integrate any emailing service
• Customize the contents of the email and the targeted recipients

GitHub integration as Version Control tool

• Version Control System
• GitHub
• VCS Workflow
• Key benefits of VCS
• Jenkins with GitHub
• Pre-requirements for GitHub Integration

Hands-on Lab:

• Given a git repository that has webhooks registered (GitHub will be used because these are preconfigured)
• Learn how Jenkins can clone the contents of that repository in a workspace and use the files located there to complete one of its tasks
• Jenkins can also execute certain actions, such as auto building a job on a git push, based on the webhooks that are configured on the repository

Generating jobs using scripts

• What is a seed job?
• Create and configure seed jobs
• GitHub and seed jobs

Hands-on Lab:

• Make use of DSL scripts (part of a Jenkins plugin) to programmatically generate Jenkins jobs
• Run the scripts from a remote location by using a service such as Git
• Understand how this functionality can allow you to create and administrate a very large number of jobs at the same time through the power of scripts

Parallel Builds using pipelines

• What is a Pipeline Job?
• How to write a Pipeline Script

Hands-on Lab:

• Creating pipelines in Jenkins
• Isolate build steps of a more complex task that you want to execute. Use the built in Pipeline Syntax tool to generate a pipeline script
• Dispatch and execute only parts of your pipeline on other nodes or in parallel to further optimize the time spent executing the job
• Learn how the logs exposed by Jenkins in pipelines can improve the way you debug the failure of a task

Using Maven as a build tool

• What is Maven?
• How Maven works
• Prerequisites for Maven Integration
• Creating a Maven Project
• Creating a pipeline that includes Maven

Define building and testing steps

Demo: Creating a simple pipeline that takes a Maven project and creates and tests a build.

Create a complete pipeline that tests a build and stores if for deployment

Hands-on Lab:

• Creating a pipeline that creates and archives a build of an application
• Maven will be used as a build tool and the project is located on a remote Git repository
• Combine all the accumulated knowledge into one complex task

Adding slave nodes

• What is a Slave node and why use it?
• How to create a Slave node

Hands-on Lab:

• Expand the Jenkins architecture by adding new nodes
• Create a connection between the Jenkins master server and the newly created node
• Learn how different machines communicate with each other and what are the prerequisites when thinking of creating a new machine