This course is approximately 50% hands-on, combining expert lecture, real-world demonstrations and group discussions with machine-based practical labs and exercises. Working in a hands-on learning environment guided by our expert practitioner, students will explore:

• Introduction to Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Jenkins-CI
• Installing and Running Jenkins
• Job Types in Jenkins
• Securing Jenkins
• Jenkins Plugin
• Distributed Builds with Jenkins
• Continuous Deployment and the Jenkins Pipeline
• Best Practices for Jenkins

This audience includes DevOps engineers, software developers, and IT professionals interested in continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automating the software development lifecycle.

• Introduction to Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Jenkins-CI
• Agile Development
• Agile Development (cont'd)
• What is Continuous Integration
• What is Continuous Integration (cont'd)
• What is Continous Integration (cont'd)
• Typical Setup for Continuous Integration
• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Deployment (cont'd)
• DevOps and Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Deployment Challenges
• Jenkins Continuous Integration
• Jenkins Features
• Running Jenkins
• Installing and Running Jenkins
• Downloading and Installing Jenkins
• Running Jenkins as a Stand-Alone Application
• Running Jenkins as a Stand-Alone Application (cont'd)
• Running Jenkins on an Application Server
• The Jenkins Home Folder
• Installing Jenkins as a Windows Service
• Initial Configuration
• Configuration Wizard
• Configuration Wizard (cont'd)
• Configuring Tools
• Configuring Tools - Best Practices
• Job Types in Jenkins
• Different types of Jenkins Items
• Different types of Jenkins Items (cont'd)
• Configuring Source Code Management(SCM)
• Working with Subversion
• Working with Subversion (cont'd)
• Working with Git
• Storing Credentials
• Storing Credentials (cont'd)
• Build Triggers
• Schedule Build Jobs
• Polling the SCM
• Maven Build Steps
• Securing Jenkins
• Jenkins Security - Overview
• Jenkins Security
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Confidentiality
• Activating Security
• Configure Authentication
• Using Jenkins's Internal User Database
• Creating Users
• Authorization
• Matrix-Based Security
• Note - Create the Administrative User
• Project-based Matrix Authorization
• Project-Based Authentication
• Jenkins Plugin
• Introduction
• Jenkins Plugins - SCM
• Jenkins Plugins - Build and Test
• Jenkins Plugins - Analyzers
• Jenkins for Teams
• Installing Jenkins Plugins
• Distributed Builds with Jenkins
• Distributed Builds - Overview
• Distributed Builds - How?
• Slave Machines
• Configure Jenkins Master
• Configure Projects
• Continuous Deployment and the Jenkins Pipeline
• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Deployment (cont'd)
• DevOps and Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Deployment Challenges
• Continuous Deployment with Jenkins
• The Pipeline Plugin
• The Pipeline Plugin (cont'd)
• Defining a Pipeline
• A Pipeline Example
• Pipeline Example (cont'd)
• Parallel Execution
• Creating a Pipeline
• Invoking the Pipeline
• Interacting with the Pipeline
• Best Practices for Jenkins
• Best Practices - Secure Jenkins
• Best Practices - Backups
• Best Practices - Reproducible Builds
• Best Practices - Testing and Reports
• Best Practices - Large Systems
• Best Practices - Distributed Jenkins