
Explore how continuous integration with Jenkins accelerates development through automated unit tests, web services tests, and ui tests, fast feedback, and continuous delivery to staging or production.
Explain the differences between continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment, and outline how to implement them in a pipeline with automated unit and integration tests, staging, and production deployment.
Explain why we choose Jenkins as our main continuous integration tool, highlighting its free and open-source nature, cross-platform compatibility, and large plugin ecosystem and community support.
Install Jenkins CI on Google Cloud Platform by creating a small instance, configuring firewall rules, retrieving the initial admin password, and installing the suggested plugins with an initial admin user.
Learn to create a freestyle Jenkins job, configure a simple build that echoes hello world, run it, and verify the console output and success status.
Learn how build triggers in Jenkins automate continuous integration workflows using on-demand, upstream, periodic (cron), and source control triggers, and configure them to run after preceding jobs finish.
Learn how to use cron syntax in Jenkins to schedule tasks, using asterisks for every minute and specific values for timing, like every five minutes or at midnight.
Learn how artifacts work in Jenkins CI: create, save, and share files from the last successful build, and copy them between tasks and pipelines to optimize builds.
Learn to create and view a build pipeline in Jenkins, linking hello world and second task, installing the build pipeline plugin, and visualizing upstream and downstream steps in order.
Learn how to manage Jenkins security and access by editing the global security settings, toggling security on or off, configuring authorization, and setting up users and groups.
Discover how to back up Jenkins, use the config history plugin to track changes, and restore via snapshots on Google Cloud for reliable recovery.
Learn popular interview questions on continuous integration and delivery, including what CI is, how CD differs, and how Jenkins and automated unit, integration, and UI tests fit into pipelines.
Welcome to the "Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery with Jenkins" course! This comprehensive course is designed to provide you with a deep understanding of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), two essential practices in modern software development.
We begin by exploring the fundamental concepts of CI, explaining how it integrates code changes from multiple contributors into a shared repository several times a day. You'll learn why CI is crucial for early detection of integration bugs and how it improves the overall software quality.
Next, we delve into the differences between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment, helping you understand the nuances and applications of each. Continuous Delivery ensures that your code is always in a deployable state, whereas Continuous Deployment goes a step further by automatically deploying every change that passes the automated tests to production.
For the practical part of the course, we will use Jenkins, a widely adopted CI/CD tool. You will learn how to set up Jenkins on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Compute Engine, configure it for your projects, and automate your build, test, and deployment processes. We'll cover essential Jenkins features such as pipelines, plugins, and integrations with other tools, ensuring you can build a robust CI/CD pipeline.
By the end of this course, you'll also be well-prepared for software engineering interviews, as we'll cover the top CI/CD-related interview questions. This knowledge will help you confidently discuss CI/CD practices and tools with potential employers, showcasing your expertise in this critical area of software development.
Whether you are a software engineer looking to improve your CI/CD skills, a DevOps engineer tasked with implementing CI/CD pipelines, or a student preparing for a career in software development, this course will provide you with the knowledge and hands-on experience you need to succeed.