Jenkins

The Project Build and Release Automation 

• The components of build system
• The build automation process
• Overview on Apache Maven and Ant and Gradle
• Unit and Integration testing 
• Overview on GIT SCM
• Product Delivery pipeline  
• Code integration 

 What is Continuous Integration?   

Introduction to Continuous Integration 

• What Is CI?
• Why CI?
• CI Philosophy
• Advantages of CI in Software Development

 How to Implement CI 

• Setting Up a CI Environment
• CI Tools
• Automated Builds
• Automated Tests
• Code Repository
• Continuous Integration builds 
• Integration of Automated Testing With CI
• Continuous Delivery mechanism
• Continuous Improvement with Feedback Loop and Improvement Cycle

 The CI process practices

• What you need for CI
• General Working Procedure
• Team involvement and notifications 
• Commit Code Frequently
• Don’t Commit Broken Code
• Run private Builds First
• Fix Broken Builds immediately
• Avoid Getting Broken Builds
• Write Automated Developer tests
• All Tests Must Pass
• Automate as Much as Possible
• Shared Ownership
• Build automation 

 The Jenkins CI Server

• Jenkins Architecture and Features
• Jenkins installation and configuration  
• Jenkins plug-ins configuration

Security plug-ins

• Maven Plug-in
• Git Plug-in
• Cobertura
• Jacoco
• MS Build
• Pipeline plug-in
• Assign user roles for admin and monitoring.

Create Freestyle Build job

• The project build configuration 
• Jenkins GIT SCM integration
• Configure the Trigger for build process 
• Configure pre-build and post-build activities with ant and other tools
• Execute the JUnit test cases/suites
• Integrate with code quality tools Sonar, Find bugs, PMD, Check Style etc.
• Generate test reports.
• Monitor the build jobs
• Build console monitoring
• Jenkins Groovy API Overview
• Using Groovy console for monitoring and update
• Use groovy scripts

 Maven Job

• Maven job with application Dependencies
• Working with Local/Remote Repository 
• Maven Central Repository usage
• Build Java project with Maven
• Configure pre and post build activities
• Deploy the artifacts
• Build and monitor the job
• Build job dependencies
• Upstream and downstream triggers
• The effects of build failures
• Define a pipeline of jobs

High Level Pipeline Job

• The pipeline plug-in update
• Generate configuration
• Manage repository
• Manage build activities
• Build artifacts
• Create delivery pipeline from development job
• Define series of build jobs
• The code to manage the infrastructure 
• Execution and monitoring 
• Parameterized Jobs

Configure build with external inputs

• Create a parameterized job
• Configure external parameters String, Boolean, Choice, file, job name etc.
• Execute another build job
• Read the parameters during build as environment values 
• Apache ant script
• Groovy Console
• Use plug-in for parameterized customization
• The execution of parameterized job

Groovy in Jenkins

• Role of groovy in Jenkins 
• Groovy language basics  
• The Groovy Interpreter and architecture 
• Classes and Scripts 
• Execute groovy scripts 
• Java Integration
• Groovy Applications
• Database Operations 
• Operator overloading
• Execute groovy scripts in Jenkins Groovy console
• Jenkins Groovy plug-in
• Execute groovy scripts as build activity  

 Jenkins Advanced

• Configure Non-Java builds such as C++ / .net applications
• Jenkins plug-ins architecture
• Write your own plug-in 
• Distributed Builds on Master-Slave nodes 
• Restrict the job execution on a node
• High availability / Clustering overview