Making a Course on Pipeline Plugin

[Kent Johnson]

Hi all, I am making a course on how to use Jenkins with the Pipeline plugin to automate continuous integration and builds.

My goal is to make having a short, low-noise, high-reliability feedback loop a practical possibility for the average developer.

I am thinking this means that I would show how to use Docker to spin up Jenkins locally and a test-grid locally as well as how to create or plug into an existing enterprise Jenkins Pipeline build system.

See this Github repo for the TOC: https://github.com/kentoj/jenkins-pipeline-course

Though I have used the Pipeline plugin (back when it was called the Workflow plugin) I am not familiar with even a small fraction of the best use cases for it.

Will you, the other community members, help me put together a good table of contents or outline for a solid three to four hour course on how people could use and benefit from Jenkins with the Pipeline plugin?

I understand there are many ways to use Jenkins and the Pipeline so I am having to pick a small scope to begin with, though I would like to go as deep as showing test reports, running tests on test grids, and doing a build for every pushed branch to a repo.

I would greatly appreciate any contributions to the TOC. Please submit any suggestions or criticism as an issue or a pull request.

I believe we can create a great course together with the time I have to make it and the knowledge of this community.

[Anderson Goulart]

Hi,

I don't know if is pertinent, but here are my suggestions:

Jenkinsfile DSL

Scaling (what are the design options for managing multiple projects? How to share code between them? )

Integrations (like pushing artifacts to S3)

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[Kent Johnson]

Yes, Anderson, the Jenkins DSL was where I thought I would start.

That will be interesting to cover as Kotlin becomes more supported as another language in addition to Groovy to write build scripts in.

When you say scaling I think of spinning up a collection of containers for a test grid. It looks like you are also referring to multi-project builds and using the same binary artifacts for multiple projects. Is that what you are saying? I definitely want to cover multi-project builds whether in the introduction course or the advanced course.

I definitely want to cover artifact storage integrations. The storage integrations I am thinking of consists of JFrog's Artifactory, Sonatype's Nexus, and Docker's Docker Registry. I hadn't thought of Amazon's S3, so I'll add that to the list.

I don't want to go too extensively into examples on one point though I want to give a broad overview and rich selection of what successful products and teams use in our industry to automate integration and delivery processes.