Implementing a CI/CD Pipeline

Part 1: Technology Overview

1. Git – Source Control Management
2. Chef – Configuration Management
3. Jenkins – Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment

Part 2: Git – Source Control Management

1. Purpose overview and use cases
2. Git workflow
3. Configuring git on your local machine
4. Getting help with Git
5. Local vs. Global vs. System configurations
6. Basic Git Commands
7. Creating local git repositories
8. Branching and merging
9. Using remote repositories
10. Pushing code to Github using public and private SSH keys

Part 3: Ansible – Configuration Management

1. Ansible purpose and use cases
2. Architecture and call flow
3. Ansible installation, configuration, and validation
4. Control nodes and managed nodes
5. Ansible managed hosts
6. Host inventory; hosts and groups
7. Repeatable code: Playbooks
8. Introduction to YAML
9. Modularizing code: Roles
10. Ansible variables
11. Dynamic configuration with facts
12. Finding errors: Ansible unit testing
13. Ensuring code quality: Ansible integration testing

Part 4: Jenkins – Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment

1. CI/CD overview, use cases and history
2. Plugin architecture
3. Initializing a Jenkins server
4. Projects and jobs
5. Freestyle jobs
6. CI/CD as Code: Pipeline projects
7. Declarative vs. scripted pipelines
8. Jenkins Environment variables and parameters
9. Distributed architecture: Master and agent nodes
10. Views and Folders
11. Managing credentials and secrets
12. Integrating with git Source Control Management
13. Triggers: Webhooks and Polling
14. Notifications: Instant messaging and SMTP Email
15. Approval inputs
16. Testing Ansible playbooks in Jenkins
17. Multibranch Pipelines: Reading entire repositories
18. Conditional Logic
19. Deploying Chef cookbooks with Jenkins: An automated end-to-end deployment pipeline

Required Prerequisites:

• Understand the purpose of infrastructure servers
• Familiar with scripting of any kind
• Experience working at the command line of Unix, Linux, or PowerShell
• Experience with a text editor of any kind

Professionals who may benefit include:

• DevOps Engineers
• System Operations
• Code Developers
• Software Developers
• Quality Assurance Professionals
• Software Testers
• Product Owners
• Infrastructure Engineers
• Development Team Members
• Operations Team Members
• Project Managers
• Technical Product Managers

• Maintain code using Git and GitHub
• Create, test, and deploy Ansible playbooks through a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline
• Complete integration tests
• Write CI/CD as code using Jenkins
• Compile, test, package, and permanently store Java applications
• Store artifacts