Beginning Jenkins

Accelerate product delivery, manage builds, and automate deployment pipelines with Jenkins

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Description

Beginning Jenkins teaches you everything you need to know about installing, setting up, configuring, and integrating a Jenkins server with your project to speed up the product development lifecycle. You will learn how to deploy via Docker and integrate with Git. Next, you will move on to understanding bespoke plugins and services to further customize your workflow, and dynamically adjust your build requirements when pushing to production.

Once you have grasped the basics, you will explore user and plugin management along with updating and upgrading Jenkins. You will set up freestyle projects and views to manage your projects, followed by configuring parameters for your projects and creating upstream and downstream projects with views to visualize the projects. In addition to this, you will create a secure connection from your master to your build slaves and configure your build tasks to run on the slave.

By the end of this course, you will be able to successfully set up a Jenkins server that checks your source code repositories for changes, triggering new builds and unit tests whilst informing all of the key stakeholders in your organization.

About the Author

Joseph Muli loves programming, writing, teaching, gaming, and traveling. He's currently working as a software engineer at Andela and Fathom, specializing in DevOps and Site Reliability. Previously, he worked as a software engineer and technical mentor at Moringa School.

Arnold Okoth is a software developer at Andela with three years' experience of extensive development and system operations. He has worked with Python, Jenkins, Docker, AWS, and Bash. Arnold has gained numerous certifications in the fields of networking, application security, and cloud computing from industry-leading vendors, such as Amazon, Cisco, and IBM. During his downtime, Arnold enjoys watching sports – mainly football and basketball. You can find out more about Arnold on his LinkedIn profile.

Debayan is working as a Technical Team Lead for the Mobile Tools team at Pandora. He has over 6 years of experience in DevOps and Jenkins. He is also a certified Jenkins Engineer.

A few months back he had presented at the Jenkins World meetup on the topic "Set up and Manage iOS and Infrastructure for CI with Jenkins".

What You Will Learn!

  • Set up and deploy a Jenkins server across different platforms via Docker
  • Design development workflows that enable continuous integration and then easily integrate with Jenkins
  • Explore community plugins and use them to extend core Jenkins functionality
  • Set up a freestyle project as well as a view to manage your projects
  • Understand source control and pipelines, and build parameters in the context of Git and Jenkins
  • Configure general-purpose freestyle projects, or use more formal pipeline-driven implementation

Who Should Attend!

  • Beginning Jenkins is for you if you are a software developer, with prior experience in application development, looking to build and transition to a more centrally managed deployment process. This course is ideal if you need a real-world introduction to continuous delivery, with a view to setting up and using Jenkins as a tool for your own software development lifecycle.