Mastering Jenkins(Instructor led training)

About Course

Jenkins is an open-source server that automates the time-consuming tasks of building, testing, and deploying software. By helping developers streamline these traditionally tedious processes, Jenkins accelerates the development process, helps reduce error rates, and frees up developers’ time so they can focus on more high-level tasks.

Jenkins automations support continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) processes in DevOps projects.

Why should you learn jenkins? well, below are some of the reasons:-

Automate tasks: Jenkins automates building, testing, and deploying code, which can save time and reduce errors
Improve collaboration: Jenkins facilitates continuous integration and feedback, which can improve team workflows
Ensure code quality: Jenkins can help ensure code quality by continuously testing code after a commit
Accelerate delivery: Jenkins can help enable faster delivery of software updates
Scale projects: Jenkins can support large-scale projects with distributed builds
Adapt to changes: Jenkins can be extended using plugins, which can help it adapt to changes in IT environment

1. Introduction to Jenkins: Understand the basics of Jenkins, its architecture, and its role in CI/CD.
2. Installing and configuring Jenkins: Learn how to install and configure Jenkins on various platforms.
3. Jenkins terminology: Familiarize yourself with Jenkins terminology, such as jobs, builds, and plugins.
4. Creating and managing jobs: Learn how to create and manage Jenkins jobs, including freestyle jobs and pipeline jobs.
5. Build automation: Understand how to automate builds using Jenkins, including build triggers and scheduling.
6. Build artifacts: Learn how to manage build artifacts, such as JAR files and executables.
7. Introduction to Jenkins pipelines: Understand the basics of Jenkins pipelines and how they differ from freestyle jobs.
8. Creating and managing pipelines: Learn how to create and manage Jenkins pipelines, including pipeline syntax and structure.
9. Pipeline stages and steps: Understand how to define pipeline stages and steps, including build, test, and deploy stages.
10. Jenkins plugins: Learn about popular Jenkins plugins, such as Git, Maven, and Docker.
11. Integrating with other tools: Understand how to integrate Jenkins with other development tools, such as GitHub, Bitbucket, and JIRA.
12. Customizing Jenkins: Learn how to customize Jenkins using plugins and scripts.
13. Jenkins security: Understand how to secure Jenkins, including authentication, authorization, and encryption.
14. Best practices for Jenkins: Learn about best practices for using Jenkins, including job organization, build optimization, and plugin management.
15. Jenkins distributed builds: Learn about Jenkins distributed builds and how to set up a distributed build environment.
16. Jenkins clustering: Understand how to set up a Jenkins cluster for high availability and scalability.
17. Jenkins API: Learn about the Jenkins API and how to use it to automate tasks and integrate with other tools.
18. DevOps and CI/CD: Understand the role of Jenkins in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
19. Jenkins and containerization: Learn about using Jenkins with containerization technologies, such as Docker.
20. Jenkins and cloud computing: Understand how to use Jenkins with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS and Azure.

Course Content

Introduction to Continuous Integration(CI)

Advantages of Continuous Integration

Introduction to Jenkins Applications of Jenkins

Getting Started with Jenkins

Jenkins Architecture and terms of jenkins

Overview of Jenkins UI

Configuring Jenkins: Configure System, Environment Variables, URL

Creating a Jenkins job Configuring a Jenkins job

Creating a Freestyle Build Job

Build Triggers and Build Steps

Pre-Build and Post-Build Actions

Running New Build Job

Parameterized Builds and Distributed Builds

Setting Up Email Notifications

SMTP Plugins and Configurations

Securing Jenkins

Creating a basic Jenkins pipeline

Multi branch pipeline

Jenkins Pipeline example using Java and Maven

Creating a basic build job to clone a git and display the contents

Configuring and use smtp plugin for email notification

Jenkins Plugins

Common Plugins

Global tool Configuration

Jenkins Integration -Java, Git, Maven

Jenkins Build

Jenkins Workspace

Access Control on Jenkins

Creating a Maven Project

Create and deploy a Maven project on Tomcat

Triggers creation and troubleshooting

Deploy a custom plugin in Jenkins

Deployment Overview

Install and Configure Tomcat

Jenkins Build Pipeline

Jenkins Integrations

Scaling Jenkins

Pipeline – Writing Groovy Scripting

Understanding Groovy Scripting

Importance of Jenkins Pipeline

Pipeline Concepts

Pipeline Syntax

Running Pipelines

Pipeline Plugins

Plugins Responsible for Jenkins Pipeline

Enable and Disable Jenkins Plugin

Install Plugins

Uninstall Plugins

Libraries & Shared libraries

Code Coverage in Jenkins

Looking for Foul Code through Code Coverage

Activation and Use of PMD Jenkins plugin

Activation and Use of Findbugs Jenkins plugin

Validation in Jenkins

Reporting in Jenkins

Jenkins Restoration

Security