51 CI/CD courses

This course will teach you the fundamentals of Jenkins and how to continually implement and deploy codes in a DevOps environment. You will also learn how to integrate automated tests to verify the build pipelines and set up code quality reporting.

If you know various DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes, and are not sure how they work collaboratively, then this course is for you. Learn to create a simple DevOps project using Git as the local version control system, GitHub as the distributor version control system, Jenkins as the continuous integration tool, Maven as a build tool, Ansible as configuration management and deployment tool, Docker for containerization, Kubernetes as a container management tool, and all this environment is set up on AWS.

Learn GitHub Actions in a weekend! This course covers all the important concepts to help you master GitHub Actions and its practical applications. Gain in-demand skills, design a CI/CD pipeline, and deploy infra as code with GitHub Actions. Boost your career with this essential skill for DevOps practices.

Do you want to build a CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications or microservices on AKS and EKS Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Jenkinsfile? Then you are in the right place.

Master Azure DevOps and Git for seamless, efficient software delivery. This comprehensive course covers everything from basic project management concepts to advanced continuous delivery techniques in Azure DevOps, tailored for technical professionals.

Learn to use DevOps tools from an industrial point of view. This course will help you get a firsthand experience of what it is like to be a DevOps engineer. Create DevOps CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, SonarQube, and Kubernetes on AWS. Start your DevOps journey today. This course has been created from the perspective of a DevOps engineer who doesn't typically write application code.

DURATION 2 DAYS 12 CPD HOURS THIS COURSE IS INTENDED FOR THE TARGET AUDIENCE FOR THE DEVOPS FOUNDATION COURSE INCLUDES MANAGEMENT, OPERATIONS, DEVELOPERS, QA AND TESTING PROFESSIONALS SUCH AS: INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN IT DEVELOPMENT IT OPERATIONS OR IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT. INDIVIDUALS WHO REQUIRE AN UNDERSTANDING OF DEVOPS PRINCIPLES. IT PROFESSIONALS WORKING WITHIN, OR ABOUT TO ENTER, AN AGILE SERVICE DESIGN ENVIRONMENT THE FOLLOWING IT ROLES: AUTOMATION ARCHITECTS, APPLICATION DEVELOPERS, BUSINESS ANALYSTS, BUSINESS MANAGERS, BUSINESS STAKEHOLDERS, CHANGE AGENTS, CONSULTANTS, DEVOPS CONSULTANTS, DEVOPS ENGINEERS, INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT, INTEGRATION SPECIALISTS, IT DIRECTORS, IT MANAGERS, IT OPERATIONS, IT TEAM LEADERS, LEAN COACHES, NETWORK ADMINISTRATORS, OPERATIONS MANAGERS, PROJECT MANAGERS, RELEASE ENGINEERS, SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS, SOFTWARE TESTER/QA, SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS, SYSTEMS ENGINEERS, SYSTEM INTEGRATORS, TOOL PROVIDERS. OVERVIEW THE LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR DEVOPS FOUNDATION INCLUDE AN UNDERSTANDING OF: DEVOPS OBJECTIVES AND VOCABULARY BENEFITS TO THE BUSINESS AND IT PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES INCLUDING CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION, CONTINUOUS DELIVERY, TESTING, SECURITY AND THE THREE WAYS DEVOPS RELATIONSHIP TO AGILE, LEAN AND ITSM IMPROVED WORKFLOWS, COMMUNICATION AND FEEDBACK LOOPS AUTOMATION PRACTICES INCLUDING DEPLOYMENT PIPELINES AND DEVOPS TOOLCHAINS SCALING DEVOPS FOR THE ENTERPRISE CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS AND KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS REAL-LIFE EXAMPLES AND RESULTS DESCRIPTION THE DEVOPS FOUNDATION COURSE PROVIDES A BASELINE UNDERSTANDING OF KEY DEVOPS TERMINOLOGY TO ENSURE EVERYONE IS TALKING THE SAME LANGUAGE AND HIGHLIGHTS THE BENEFITS OF DEVOPS TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS. LEARNERS WILL GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING OF DEVOPS, THE CULTURAL AND PROFESSIONAL MOVEMENT THAT STRESSES COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, INTEGRATION, AND AUTOMATION TO IMPROVE THE FLOW OF WORK BETWEEN SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS AND IT OPERATIONS PROFESSIONALS. THIS COURSE PREPARES YOU FOR THE DEVOPS FOUNDATION (DOFD) CERTIFICATION. EXPLORING DEVOPS * Defining DevOps * Why Does DevOps Matter? * CORE DEVOPS PRINCIPLES * The Three Ways * The First Way * The Theory of Constraints * The Second Way * The Third Way * Chaos Engineering * Learning Organizations KEY DEVOPS PRACTICES * Continuous Testing, Integration, Delivery, Deployment * Site Reliability & Resilience Engineering * DevSecOps * ChatOps * Kanban BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORKS * Agile * ITSM * Lean * Safety Culture * Learning Organizations * Continuous Funding CULTURE, BEHAVIORS & OPERATING MODELS * Defining Culture * Cultural Debt * Behavioral Models * Organizational maturity models AUTOMATION & ARCHITECTING DEVOPS TOOLCHAINS * CI/CD * Cloud, Containers, and Microservices * AI and Machine Learning * Automation * DevOps Toolchains MEASUREMENT, METRICS, AND REPORTING * The Importance of Measurement * DevOps Metrics - Speed, Quality, Stability, Culture * Change lead/cycle time * Value Driven Metrics SHARING, SHADOWING AND EVOLVING * DevOps in the Enterprise * Roles * DevOps Leadership * Organizational Considerations * Getting Started * Challenges, Risks, and Critical Success Factors ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Nexus Humans DevOps Foundation (DevOps Institute) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the DevOps Foundation (DevOps Institute) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

JENKINS TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION An introduction to Continuous Integration and development (CI/CD) in network automation using Jenkins. The course focusses specifically on the network Devops case of using Jenkins. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how Jenkins can help with network automation. * Configure Jenkins for network Devops. * Use Jenkins for network automation. JENKINS TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Network engineers. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation * Duration 1 day JENKINS TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is Jenkins? DevOps, CI/CD, version control systems, git, automating execution of tasks, Jenkins job, Jenkins pipeline, Jenkins plugins, CI server. Hands on Installing Jenkins. * Example pipeline for network automation YAML, GitHub, Jenkins, ansible, network devices. Hands on Investigating a workflow: Auto deploying network configurations. * Configuring Jenkins Code repository, build triggers, gerrit and reviews, build environment. A Jenkins job, build step, post build actions, running a Jenkins job, build log, home directory. Hands on Configuring Jenkins. * CI using Jenkins Branches, pipeline, git, the git plugin. Hands on A Jenkins job to poll, build and unit test network configurations.

DURATION 4 DAYS 24 CPD HOURS THIS COURSE IS INTENDED FOR STUDENTS IN THIS COURSE ARE INTERESTED IN DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING DEVOPS PROCESSES OR IN PASSING THE MICROSOFT AZURE DEVOPS SOLUTIONS CERTIFICATION EXAM. DESCRIPTION THIS COURSE PROVIDES THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS TO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT DEVOPS PROCESSES AND PRACTICES. STUDENTS WILL LEARN HOW TO PLAN FOR DEVOPS, USE SOURCE CONTROL, SCALE GIT FOR AN ENTERPRISE, CONSOLIDATE ARTIFACTS, DESIGN A DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, MANAGE SECRETS, IMPLEMENT CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION, IMPLEMENT A CONTAINER BUILD STRATEGY, DESIGN A RELEASE STRATEGY, SET UP A RELEASE MANAGEMENT WORKFLOW, IMPLEMENT A DEPLOYMENT PATTERN, AND OPTIMIZE FEEDBACK MECHANISMS PREREQUISITES SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS WILL HAVE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF: * CLOUD COMPUTING CONCEPTS, INCLUDING AN UNDERSTANDING OF PAAS, SAAS, AND IAAS IMPLEMENTATIONS. * BOTH AZURE ADMINISTRATION AND AZURE DEVELOPMENT WITH PROVEN EXPERTISE IN AT LEAST ONE OF THESE AREAS. * VERSION CONTROL, AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, AND CORE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES. IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE EXPERIENCE IN AN ORGANIZATION THAT DELIVERS SOFTWARE. * AZ-104T00 - MICROSOFT AZURE ADMINISTRATOR * AZ-204T00: DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS FOR MICROSOFT AZURE 1 - INTRODUCTION TO DEVOPS * What is DevOps? * Explore the DevOps journey * Identify transformation teams * Explore shared goals and define timelines 2 - CHOOSE THE RIGHT PROJECT * Explore greenfield and brownfield projects * Decide when to use greenfield and brownfield projects * Decide when to use systems of record versus systems of engagement * Identify groups to minimize initial resistance * Identify project metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) 3 - DESCRIBE TEAM STRUCTURES * Explore agile development practices * Explore principles of agile development * Define organization structure for agile practices * Explore ideal DevOps team members * Enable in-team and cross-team collaboration * Select tools and processes for agile practices 4 - CHOOSE THE DEVOPS TOOLS * What is Azure DevOps? * What is GitHub? * Explore an authorization and access strategy * Migrate or integrate existing work management tools * Migrate or integrate existing test management tools * Design a license management strategy 5 - PLAN AGILE WITH GITHUB PROJECTS AND AZURE BOARDS * Link GitHub to Azure Boards * Configure GitHub Projects * Manage work with GitHub Project boards * Customize Project views * Collaborate using team discussions * Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards 6 - INTRODUCTION TO SOURCE CONTROL * Explore DevOps foundational practices * What is source control? * Explore benefits of source control * Explore best practices for source control 7 - DESCRIBE TYPES OF SOURCE CONTROL SYSTEMS * Understand centralized source control * Understand distributed source control * Explore Git and Team Foundation Version Control * Examine and choose Git * Understand objections to using Git * Describe working with Git locally 8 - WORK WITH AZURE REPOS AND GITHUB * Migrate from TFVC to Git * Use GIT-TFS * Develop online with GitHub Codespaces 9 - STRUCTURE YOUR GIT REPO * Explore monorepo versus multiple repos * Implement a change log 10 - MANAGE GIT BRANCHES AND WORKFLOWS * Explore branch workflow types * Explore feature branch workflow * Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery * Explore GitHub flow * Explore fork workflow * Version Control with Git in Azure Repos 11 - COLLABORATE WITH PULL REQUESTS IN AZURE REPOS * Collaborate with pull requests * Examine GitHub mobile for pull request approvals 12 - IDENTIFY TECHNICAL DEBT * Examine code quality * Examine complexity and quality metrics * Measure and manage technical debt * Integrate other code quality tools * Plan effective code reviews 13 - EXPLORE GIT HOOKS * Implement Git hooks 14 - PLAN FOSTER INNER SOURCE * Explore foster inner source * Implement the fork workflow * Describe inner source with forks 15 - MANAGE GIT REPOSITORIES * Work with large repositories * Purge repository data * Manage releases with GitHub Repos * Automate release notes with GitHub 16 - EXPLORE AZURE PIPELINES * Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps * Describe Azure Pipelines * Understand Azure Pipelines key terms 17 - MANAGE AZURE PIPELINE AGENTS AND POOLS * Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents * Explore job types * Explore predefined agent pool * Understand typical situations for agent pools * Communicate with Azure Pipelines * Communicate to deploy to target servers * Examine other considerations * Describe security of agent pools * Configure agent pools and understanding pipeline styles 18 - DESCRIBE PIPELINES AND CONCURRENCY * Understand parallel jobs * Estimate parallel jobs * Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects * Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer * Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML 19 - EXPLORE CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION * Learn the four pillars of continuous integration * Explore benefits of continuous integration * Describe build properties * Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines 20 - IMPLEMENT A PIPELINE STRATEGY * Configure agent demands * Implement multi-agent builds * Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines 21 - INTEGRATE WITH AZURE PIPELINES * Describe the anatomy of a pipeline * Understand the pipeline structure * Detail templates * Explore YAML resources * Use multiple repositories in your pipeline 22 - INTRODUCTION TO GITHUB ACTIONS * What are Actions? * Explore Actions flow * Understand workflows * Describe standard workflow syntax elements * Explore events * Explore jobs * Explore runners * Examine release and test an action 23 - LEARN CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION WITH GITHUB ACTIONS * Describe continuous integration with actions * Examine environment variables * Share artifacts between jobs * Examine Workflow badges * Describe best practices for creating actions * Mark releases with Git tags * Create encrypted secrets * Use secrets in a workflow * Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD 24 - DESIGN A CONTAINER BUILD STRATEGY * Examine structure of containers * Work with Docker containers * Understand Dockerfile core concepts * Examine multi-stage dockerfiles * Examine considerations for multiple stage builds * Explore Azure container-related services * Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps 25 - INTRODUCTION TO CONTINUOUS DELIVERY * Explore traditional IT development cycle * What is continuous delivery? * Move to continuous delivery * Understand releases and deployments * Understand release process versus release 26 - CREATE A RELEASE PIPELINE * Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities * Explore release pipelines * Explore artifact sources * Choose the appropriate artifact source * Examine considerations for deployment to stages * Explore build and release tasks * Explore custom build and release tasks * Explore release jobs * Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML 27 - EXPLORE RELEASE RECOMMENDATIONS * Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers * Explore release approvals * Explore release gates * Use release gates to protect quality * Control Deployments using Release Gates 28 - PROVISION AND TEST ENVIRONMENTS * Provision and configure target environments * Configure automated integration and functional test automation * Understand Shift-left * Set up and run availability tests * Explore Azure Load Testing * Set up and run functional tests 29 - MANAGE AND MODULARIZE TASKS AND TEMPLATES * Examine task groups * Explore variables in release pipelines * Understand variable groups 30 - AUTOMATE INSPECTION OF HEALTH * Automate inspection of health * Explore events and notifications * Explore service hooks * Configure Azure DevOps notifications * Configure GitHub notifications * Explore how to measure quality of your release process * Examine release notes and documentation * Examine considerations for choosing release management tools * Explore common release management tools 31 - INTRODUCTION TO DEPLOYMENT PATTERNS * Explore microservices architecture * Examine classical deployment patterns * Understand modern deployment patterns 32 - IMPLEMENT BLUE-GREEN DEPLOYMENT AND FEATURE TOGGLES * What is blue-green deployment? * Explore deployment slots * Describe feature toggle maintenance 33 - IMPLEMENT CANARY RELEASES AND DARK LAUNCHING * Explore canary releases * Examine Traffic Manager * Understand dark launching 34 - IMPLEMENT A/B TESTING AND PROGRESSIVE EXPOSURE DEPLOYMENT * What is A/B testing? * Explore CI-CD with deployment rings 35 - INTEGRATE WITH IDENTITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS * Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO) * Explore service principals * Explore Managed Identity 36 - MANAGE APPLICATION CONFIGURATION DATA * Rethink application configuration data * Explore separation of concerns * Understand external configuration store patterns * Examine Key-value pairs * Examine App configuration feature management * Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines * Manage secrets, tokens and certificates * Examine DevOps inner and outer loop * Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps * Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags 37 - EXPLORE INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT * Explore environment deployment * Examine environment configuration * Understand imperative versus declarative configuration * Understand idempotent configuration 38 - CREATE AZURE RESOURCES USING AZURE RESOURCE MANAGER TEMPLATES * Why use Azure Resource Manager templates? * Explore template components * Manage dependencies * Modularize templates * Manage secrets in templates * Deployments using Azure Bicep templates 39 - CREATE AZURE RESOURCES BY USING AZURE CLI * What is Azure CLI? * Work with Azure CLI 40 - EXPLORE AZURE AUTOMATION WITH DEVOPS * Create automation accounts * What is a runbook? * Understand automation shared resources * Explore runbook gallery * Examine webhooks * Explore source control integration * Explore PowerShell workflows * Create a workflow * Examine checkpoint and parallel processing 41 - IMPLEMENT DESIRED STATE CONFIGURATION (DSC) * Understand configuration drift * Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC) * Explore Azure Automation State configuration (DSC) * Examine DSC configuration file * Explore hybrid management * Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure 42 - IMPLEMENT BICEP * What is Bicep? * Install Bicep * Understand Bicep file structure and syntax 43 - INTRODUCTION TO SECURE DEVOPS * Describe SQL injection attack * Understand DevSecOps * Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline * Explore key validation points * Explore continuous security validation * Understand threat modeling 44 - IMPLEMENT OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE * Explore how software is built * What is open-source software * Explore corporate concerns with open-source software components * Explore common open-source licenses * Examine license implications and ratings 45 - SOFTWARE COMPOSITION ANALYSIS * Inspect and validate code bases for compliance * Explore software composition analysis (SCA) * Integrate Mend with Azure Pipelines * Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates * Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines * Examine tools for assess package security and license rate * Interpret alerts from scanner tools * Implement security and compliance in an Azure Pipeline 46 - STATIC ANALYZERS * Explore SonarCloud * Explore CodeQL in GitHub * Manage technical debt with SonarCloud and Azure DevOps 47 - OWASP AND DYNAMIC ANALYZERS * Plan Implement OWASP Secure Coding Practices * Explore OWASP ZAP penetration test * Explore OWASP ZAP results and bugs 48 - SECURITY MONITORING AND GOVERNANCE * Implement pipeline security * Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud * Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud usage scenarios * Explore Azure Policy * Understand policies * Explore initiatives * Explore resource locks * Explore Azure Blueprints * Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity 49 - EXPLORE PACKAGE DEPENDENCIES * What is dependency management? * Describe elements of a dependency management strategy * Identify dependencies * Understand source and package componentization * Decompose your system * Scan your codebase for dependencies 50 - UNDERSTAND PACKAGE MANAGEMENT * Explore packages * Understand package feeds * Explore package feed managers * Explore common public package sources * Explore self-hosted and SaaS based package sources * Consume packages * Publish packages * Package management with Azure Artifacts 51 - MIGRATE CONSOLIDATING AND SECURE ARTIFACTS * Identify existing artifact repositories * Migrate and integrating artifact repositories * Secure access to package feeds * Examine roles * Examine permissions * Examine authentication 52 - IMPLEMENT A VERSIONING STRATEGY * Understand versioning of artifacts * Explore semantic versioning * Examine release views * Promote packages * Explore best practices for versioning 53 - INTRODUCTION TO GITHUB PACKAGES * Publish packages * Install a package * Delete and restore a package * Explore package access control and visibility 54 - IMPLEMENT TOOLS TO TRACK USAGE AND FLOW * Understand the inner loop * Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics * Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL) * Explore Application Insights * Implement Application Insights * Monitor application performance with Application Insights 55 - DEVELOP MONITOR AND STATUS DASHBOARDS * Explore Azure Dashboards * Examine view designer in Azure Monitor * Explore Azure Monitor workbooks * Explore Power BI * Build your own custom application 56 - SHARE KNOWLEDGE WITHIN TEAMS * Share acquired knowledge within development teams * Integrate with Azure Boards * Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki 57 - DESIGN PROCESSES TO AUTOMATE APPLICATION ANALYTICS * Explore rapid responses and augmented search * Integrate telemetry * Examine monitoring tools and technologies 58 - MANAGE ALERTS, BLAMELESS RETROSPECTIVES AND A JUST CULTURE * Examine when get a notification * Explore how to fix it * Explore smart detection notifications * Improve performance * Understand server response time degradation * Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts * Examine blameless retrospective * Develop a just culture

This course will help you to learn the Docker concepts and Docker support on a public cloud platform. You will become well-versed with Docker Service, Docker Swarm, Docker Stack, overlay networks, and load balancer. You will also explore the techniques of integrating Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline with Docker and advanced networking in Docker.