WA2944 Jenkins Pipeline Scripting Training
Online Virtual Class
We cover pipeline automation from the basics through advanced use cases, pointing out common patterns and common pitfalls. A knowledge of basic Jenkins is assumed, but no prior experience with pipelines is required. After this course, you will have the tools to start automating your software build, test, and deployment activities following Jenkins best practices.
Duration
Two days
Outline for Jenkins Pipeline Scripting Training
Chapter 1 Jenkins essentials refresh
Review of the fundamentals of Jenkins; baseline knowledge to study pipelines.
- Continuous integration, continuous delivery
- Jenkins as orchestration for build tasks
- Jenkins job types
- Scheduling and triggering jobs
- Security
Chapter 2 Pipeline concepts
- Role for pipelines
- Declarative and scripted pipelines
- Declarative pipeline end to end example
- Scripted pipeline end to end example
Chapter 3 Pipeline domain specific language
- Agents and nodes
- Stages and steps
- Workspaces
- Shell and tools
- Credentials and secret management
- User input
- Flow control
- Stashing and archiving
- Notification
Chapter 4 Distributed builds
- Designing for scale
- Controlling where jobs run
- Configuration management
- Considerations for distributed builds
- State management
- Concurrency concerns
- Latency concerns
Chapter 5 Selected plugins
- Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
- Gerrit
- Artifactory
- Jira
- Sonar
Chapter 6 Groovy for pipelines
- Groovy and Pipeline Groovy
- How pipeline Groovy works
- @NonCPS annotation
- Good practices for pipeline code
Chapter 7 LIbraries
- Role of libraries
- Defining libraries
- Library structure
- Using libraries
Chapter 8 Extending pipelines with Groovy
- Groovy syntax
- Data types
- Operators
- Flow control
- Try/catch and exceptions
- Functions
- Closures
- Classes
Chapter 9 Best practices
- A collection of best practices for writing and using pipelines. Some common mistakes and how to avoid them.
The course features four labs, one for each half-day, for hands-on exploration of the topics covered in lecture and discussion.
Declarative and scripted pipelines
Explores pipelines, both declarative and scripted, using common commands.
Distributed and concurrent builds
Build on multiple nodes. Parallel builds. Jobs that run on nodes other than master.Parallel execution of jobs. Sharing assets across parallel jobs;. Demonstraton of race condition.
Libraries
Refactor a pipeline and move reusable code to a shared library. Parameterize the library function to make it a more general utility. Consume the library in a pipeline and make use of the utility function.
Groovy
Write a pipeline that uses Groovy to configure and run a complex combination of build and test conditions.