Course Description

Duration: 1 Day

This course provides strong foundation in implementing the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline. Pipeline will include the following tools and technologies:

• Git–Version control
• Github–Upstream source repository
• Gerrit–Code review system
• Jenkins–CI server
• Python and Node.js–Application code
• MySQL/equivalent–Relational database
• Docker–Containerization
• DockerHub–Docker image repository

Learning Objectives

After this course, you should be able to understand:

• The components of CI/CD and how it transforms your Software Delivery timelines.
• Development best practices and how it fits in to the overall scope of CI/CD.
• The different tools and processes which can be used to build a CI/CD pipeline.
• How to set up a basic CI/CD pipeline using a demo app.

Who Should Attend

• System Administrator
• Developers
• Testers
• Solution Architect
• Release Engineer
• Cloud Professionals

Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of Linux/ Unix system concepts
• Be comfortable using the command line in Linux
• Experience with managing systems/ applications/ infrastructure or with deployments/ automation
• A basic understanding of source control and agile software development process

Course Outline

Module 1: DevOps and CI/CD

• Module overview
• How DevOps disrupted software delivery
• Overview of software delivery pipeline
• Module review

Module 2: Continuous Integration

• Module overview
• Importance of Continuous Integration
• Tools and Frameworks
• Software quality assurance
  • Testing
  • Code Analysis
  • How QA can be baked into the CI process
• CI Lab
  • Setting up code repository
  • Running Gerrit
  • Running Jenkins
  • Setting up a code review in Gerrit and verification job in Jenkins
• Module review

Module 3: Continuous Delivery

• Module overview
• Software delivery practices
• Explain a basic delivery pipeline
• Continuous delivery Lab
  • Setting up build environment
  • Setup an artifacts repository
  • Define a build job to generate Docker image
  • Push Docker image to DockerHub
• Module review

Module 4: Continuous Deployment

• Module overview
• Explain differences between Continuous delivery and deployment
• Defining deployment environments for creating an immutable infrastructure
• Deployment types
• Continuous deployment lab
  • Setup a deployment environment for deploying Docker containers
  • Define a deployment job in Jenkins for deploying new version of the code
• Module review

Labs

• Lab 1: Setup gerrit.
• Lab 2: Setup docker runtime
• Lab 3: Setup jenkins
• Lab 4: Setup gerrit and jenkins integration
• Lab 5: Setup the code repository
• Lab 6: Setup CI job to verify the patch set
• Lab 7: Setup CD job to build and publish docker image
• Lab 8: Setup CD job to deploy the services