The DevOps Toolkit: Working with Jenkins X

Course Overview

Jenkins X is a powerful tool for providing software developers continuous integration, automated testing, and continuous delivery, known as CI/CD, in Kubernetes. It’s no secret that Kubernetes is extremely complex, and Jenkins X helps you by simplifying processes into concepts that c... See More

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Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. Before Getting Started

About This Course

2. What is Jenkins X?

Introduction

Installing Prerequisites

Installing Jenkins X CLI

To Create a Cluster or Not to Create a Cluster?

Create a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster with jx

Create an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster with jx

Create an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster with jx

Is Your Cluster Ready for Jenkins X?

Install Jenkins X in an Existing Kubernetes Cluster

What Did We Get?

What Now?

Deleting GKE Cluster and Unused Resources

Deleting EKS Cluster and Related Resources

Deleting AKS Cluster and Related Resources

Uninstalling Jenkins X

Quiz

3. Exploring Quickstart Projects

Getting Started with Quickstart Projects

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X

Create a Quickstart Project

Exploring Quickstart Project Files

Retrieve Jenkins X Activities, Logs, Pipelines, and More

What Now?

Quiz

4. Importing Existing Projects Into Jenkins X

How to Go About Importing a Project in Jenkins X?

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X

Importing a Project

Fixing the Auto-Generated Helm Chart

Why Did We Do All That?

What Now?

Quiz

5. Creating Custom Build Packs

Getting Started with Custom Build Packs

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X

Choosing What to Include in a Build Pack

Creating a Build Pack for Go Applications with MongoDB Datastore

Testing the New Build Pack

Giving Back to the Community

What Now?

Quiz

6. Applying GitOps Principles

Getting Started with GitOps

Ten Commandments of GitOps Applied to Continuous Delivery

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X and Importing App

Exploring Jenkins X Environments

Types of Tests to Execute When Deploying to Staging Environment

Exploring and Adapting the Staging Environment

The Relation Between Application and Environment Pipelines

Controlling the Environments

Are we Already Following All the Commandments?

What Now?

Quiz

7. Improving And Simplifying Software Development

Efficient Software Development with Jenkins X

Exploring the Requirements of Efficient Development Environment

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X And Importing App

Creating a Remote Development Environment

Working with the Code in the DevPod Using Browser-Based IDE

Synchronizing Code from a Laptop into a DevPod

Integrating IDEs with Jenkins X

What Now?

Quiz

8. Working With Pull Requests And Preview Environments

High-level Process Lifecycle and Role of Pull Requests

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X and Importing App

Creating Pull Requests

Intermezzo

Merging a PR

Exploring Jenkins X Garbage Collection

What Now?

Quiz

9. Promoting Releases To Production

What Goes into Promoting a Release to Production?

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X and Importing App

Promoting a Release to the Production Environment

What Now?

Quiz

10. Versioning Releases

Getting Started with Versioning

Semantic Versioning Explained

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X and Importing App

Versioning Releases Through Tags

Controlling Release Versioning from Jenkins X Pipelines

Customizing Versioning Logic

Versioning with Maven, NodeJS, and Other Build Tools

What Now?

Quiz

11. Implementing ChatOps

Getting Started with ChatOps

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X

Exploring the Basic Pull Request Process Through ChatOps

Exploring Additional Slash Commands

How Do We Know Which Slash Commands Are Available?

What Now?

Quiz

12. Using The Pipeline Extension Model

Evolution of Jenkins Jobs and How We Got the YAML-Based Format

Getting Rid of Repetition

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X

Exploring Build Pack Pipelines

Extending Build Pack Pipelines

Extending Environment Pipelines

What Now?

Quiz

13. Upgrading Jenkins X Components

Getting Started with Jenkin X Upgrades

Understanding Jenkins X Version Stream

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X and Importing App

Validating Upgrades and Backing Up the Cluster

Upgrading the Cluster and Local Binaries

Upgrading Ingress Rules and Adding TLS Certificates

Changing URL Patterns

What Now?

Quiz

14. Extending Jenkins X Pipelines

Getting Started with Advanced Pipelines

What Are We Trying to Do?

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X and Importing App

Naming Steps and Using Multi-Line Commands

Working with Environment Variables and Agents

Overriding Pipelines, Stages, and Steps and Implementing Loops

Pipelines Without Buildpacks

Exploring The Syntax Schema

What Now?

Quiz

15. Using Jenkins X To Define And Run Serverless Deployments

Serverless Computing

Serverless Deployments in Kubernetes

Which Types of Applications Should Run As Serverless?

Why Do We Need Jenkins X to Be Serverless?

What is Tekton and How Does it Fit Jenkins X?

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X and Importing App

Installing Gloo and Knative

Creating a New Serverless Application Project

Using Serverless Deployments with Pull Requests

Limiting Serverless Deployments to Pull Requests

What Now?

Quiz

16. Choosing The Right Deployment Strategy

Getting Started with Choosing the Right Deployment Strategy

What Do We Expect from Deployments?

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X and Importing App

Using Serverless Strategy with Gloo and Knative (GKE Only)

Using Recreate Strategy with Standard Kubernetes Deployments

Using RollingUpdate Strategy with Standard Kubernetes Deployments

Evaluating Whether Blue-Green Deployments Are Useful

About the World We Lived In

A Short Introduction to Progressive Delivery

A Quick Introduction to Istio, Prometheus, and Flagger

Installing Istio, Prometheus, and Flagger

Creating Canary Resources with Flagger

Using Canary Strategy with Flager, Istio, and Prometheus

Rolling Back Canary Deployments

To Canary or Not to Canary?

Which Deployment Strategy Should We Choose?

What Now?

Quiz

17. Applying GitOps Principles To Jenkins X

Getting Started with Applying GitOps Principles in Jenkins X

Discussing the Cardinal Sin

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster (Without Jenkins X)

What is Jenkins X Boot?

Installing Jenkins X Using GitOps Principles

Exploring the Changes Done By the Boot

Verifying Jenkins X Boot Installation

What Now?

Quiz

18. Conclusion

Now It's Your Turn

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