Jenkins Training Overview
This Jenkins Pipeline Scripting training course teaches attendees how to automate the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes using Jenkins. Participants get an in-depth look at the Jenkins pipeline system and learn how to write powerful Groovy scripts to automate builds across multiple machines.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Understand CI/CD pipeline concepts
- Use Groovy programming to automate tasks
- Build, test, and deploy activities following Jenkins' best practices
- Use libraries
- Implement best practices for pipeline code
Prerequisites
All attendees must know the basics of Jenkins.
Outline
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Introduction
Jenkins Essentials Refresh
- Continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- Jenkins as orchestration for build tasks
- Jenkins job types
- Scheduling and triggering jobs
- Security
Pipeline Concepts
- Role for pipelines
- Declarative and scripted pipelines
- Declarative pipeline end-to-end example
- Scripted pipeline end-to-end example
Pipeline Domain-Specific Language
- Agents and nodes
- Stages and steps
- Workspaces
- Shell and tools
- Credentials and secret management
- User input
- Flow control
- Stashing and archiving
- Notification
Distributed Builds
- Designing for scale
- Controlling where jobs run
- Configuration management
- Considerations for distributed builds
- State management
- Concurrency concerns
- Latency concerns
Selected Plugins
- Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
- Gerrit
- Artifactory
- Jira
- Sonar
Groovy for Pipelines
- Groovy and Pipeline Groovy
- How pipeline Groovy works
- @NonCPS annotation
- Good practices for pipeline code
Libraries
- Role of libraries
- Defining libraries
- Library structure
- Using libraries
Extending Pipelines with Groovy
- Groovy syntax
- Data types
- Operators
- Flow control
- Try/catch and exceptions
- Functions
- Closures
- Classes
Best Practices
- Best practices for writing and using pipelines
- Common mistakes and how to avoid them
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Jenkins training students receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
Attendees will not need to install any software on their computers for this class. The class will be conducted in a remote environment that Accelebrate will provide; students will only need a local computer with a web browser and a stable Internet connection. Any recent version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome will work well.
