Brent Laster

Presentations

Jenkins 3/4 Day Workshop - bring a laptop! (See Notes)

Join me for this 3/4 day Jenkins introduction workshop. We'll learn Jenkins from the ground up and work through examples to ensure you feel comfortable with using it and understanding it before the workshop ends.

Participants should bring either a Windows or Mac laptop to work through the workshop exercises.

Topics covered:

· What Jenkins is

· The Jenkins “object model”

· Global Configuration (first steps)

· Setting up build jobs and navigating around Jenkins

· Customizing Jenkins – adding parameters and utilizing environment variables

· Jenkins Plugins

· Building an example project with Jenkins and Git

· Setting up polling for changes

· Using the Jenkins command line interface

     Scripting Jenkins with Groovy

Notes:

We're looking forward to having you in the Jenkins workshop. To maximize the learning and value of our time together, we ask that you prepare your notebook that you're bringing to this very hands on workshop.

1) Choose a Windows or Mac laptop that you'll be bringing to the workshop (we have some downloads and installs that are better to do before the event). Ensure you have admin or sudo privileges on the machine.

2) Please have a recent Java JDK installed.

3) Download and install the latest Jenkins to your machine from: http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org

4) Please have Git installed prior to attending the workshop. There's no need to "configure it" beyond the basic install. Installation instructions can be via operating-system specific pages at: http://help.github.com/win-git-installation/ http://help.github.com/mac-git-installation/

5a) Test your git setup is working by running git --version at your terminal prompt on Mac or at your "Git Bash Prompt" on Windows. Verify the output says Git is version 1.7 or higher.

Out of the Zone: Getting Comfortable being out of your Comfort Zone

Technological change happens regularly these days – and with it – opportunity. Yet, most people work automatically towards building up comfort zones and work hard to stay within them. Being able to grow in our jobs and increase our skill set and sphere of competency/influence is essential for progress and overall well-being. We may not always like or agree with change, but often there are opportunities within it and the way we respond makes all the difference in the world.

In this presentation, we’ll look at how change impacts us and ways to deal with change and technical evolution so we don’t have to be afraid of it but come to expect and embrace it – and get to a point where we use it to our advantage – in short, getting comfortable being out of our comfort zones.

DIY 3/4 Day DIY Infrastructure Workshop - bring a laptop! (See Notes)

Today’s open-source offerings allow teams to quickly and easily setup their own infrastructure for things like source management and builds. In this overview session, we'll survey some of these offering and see how to make them work to our advantage towards a Continuous Delivery model.

Participants should bring either a Windows or Mac laptop for working through the examples.

Notes:

We're looking forward to having you in the DIY Infrastructure workshop. To maximize the learning and value of our time together, we ask that you prepare your notebook that you're bringing to this hands on workshop.

1) Choose a Windows or Mac laptop that you'll be bringing to the workshop (we have some downloads and installs that are better to do before the event). Ensure you have admin or sudo privileges on the machine. Since we will be running a virtual machine on this system throughout the workshop, if you have a choice of laptops, please bring the one with a higher amount of memory and processor power.

2) Install VirtualBox on your system prior to the workshop. To simplify using all of the software that we'll be running in this session, we'll be making use of VirtualBox. You can install VirtualBox from www.virtualbox.org. (Note - the site currently seems to have an expired certificate which produces dire warnings in some browsers.) Take note of the directory where you install it. We'll need this information in the session.

3) Verify that you can start up ViritualBox and that it comes up successfully on your laptop. No more configuration is necessary.

In this 3/4 day workshop, we’ll learn how to utilize common free, open-source applications such as Cucumber, Aruba, Puppet, GIT, Jenkins, Sonar, Geb, and Spock to create a simple pipeline for managing and delivering a sample product. We will also discuss the principles of Continuous Delivery and model them as we setup our simple pipeline to do automatic builds, testing, and deployment of a sample web project - all running in a virtual machine on your laptop. We'll also talk about tooling to help automate database version management and look at scripting that can automatically extract and notify you of things like code quality metrics. Finally, we'll look at how to use some of the newest testing tools to make your testing easier.

1/2 Day Git Intro Workshop - bring a laptop! (See Notes)

Format: Combination of presentation and hands-on exercises

Synopsis: Introduction to the Git DVCS (Distributed Version Control System) Participants should bring a Windows or Mac laptop to use during the workshop exercises.

Notes: 1) Choose a Windows, Linux, or Mac laptop that you'll be bringing to the workshop (we have some downloads and installs that are better to do before the event). Ensure you have admin or sudo privileges on the machine. 2) If possible, please have Git installed prior to attending the workshop. There's no need to "configure it" beyond the basic install. Installation instructions can be found via operating-system specific pages at: http://help.github.com/win-git-installation/ http://help.github.com/mac-git-installation/ http://help.github.com/linux-git-installation/ 3) Test your git setup is working by running git --version at your terminal prompt on Mac or Linux or at your "Git Bash Prompt" on Windows. Verify the output says Git is version 1.7 or higher. .

Topics covered: · What Git is · How it differs from traditional centralized source control systems · Local user configurations · The git "promotion model" · Local repositories · Basic source control operations · Branching and merging · Interfacing with remote (server-side) repositories

Prerequisites: No previous knowledge of GIT is assumed or required.