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.
Please make sure to have a recent version of Java (1.7 or greater) installed on your laptop. We will also need Git installed but can do that in class if needed.

Topics covered:

· What Jenkins is
· The Jenkins “object model”
· Global Configuration
· 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 (Continuous Integration)

•    Setting up security in Jenkins
  

•    Creating and using Jenkins slaves
  

  · Driving Jenkins from the command line

•    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. You can get git from http://git-scm.com/downloads For Windows users, the Git for Windows that includes a Git Bash shell is the preferred installation for the class.

5a) Test your git setup is working by running git --version at your terminal prompt on Mac or at your prompt on Windows.