CloudBees CI & Jenkins Curriculum
Training and Certification by Role
CloudBees CI learning paths outlined by role.
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Configuration as Code* Courses released early 2023. | |
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Level 2: Administration series* Courses released early 2023. | |
CloudBees CI Essentials
About this course
This course is a high-level overview of core features of CloudBees CI. It explains the use cases of core features, as well as how they take your Jenkins experience to an enterprise level. As an entry point for exploring CloudBees CI capabilities, this course helps you understand how CloudBees CI works in a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment.
Course duration is one hour.
What you will learn
- Recognize the core terminology, main components, and use cases of CloudBees CI.
- Define Pipelines and identify different project types and use cases.
- Recognize capabilities that facilitate collaboration, efficiency, and standardization for your Pipeline jobs.
- Recognize CloudBees CI proprietary features that increase developer productivity.
- Identify CloudBees CI support tools and programs and how to access them.
- Describe how CloudBees CI reliability technology helps minimize disruption and data loss.
- Explain how CloudBees CI supports managing Pipeline builds, plugins, build resources, and configurations at an enterprise scale.
- Describe security features and how CloudBees CI handles audit and compliance.
Audience
This course is for anyone who wants to become conversational and gain a high-level understanding of CloudBees CI.
Prerequisites
No training prerequisites are needed to take this course, but a basic understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is helpful.
Certifications
After completing this course, you will be prepared for the following certification exams.
CloudBees CI Essentials
Designed for everyone to test their conversational understanding of what CloudBees CI can do.
CloudBees CI Level 1: Basics
About this course
This introductory course builds on the knowledge learned in the CloudBees CI: Essentials self-paced course. It combines an informational and instructional curriculum with entry-level, hands-on lab exercises. Students will gain the experience of a basic user of CloudBees CI, as well as practical exposure to core features. These features are then explored in greater detail in more specialized training courses.
This course starts with an overview of DevOps concepts and how these concepts relate to CloudBees CI. Students will learn how to perform basic user tasks in CloudBees CI, including navigating the user interface, accessing information and jobs, and running an existing Pipeline. Implementation and configuration topics are covered in DevOps and administration-specific courses.
Course duration with lab exercises is approximately 4 hours for self-paced (your time may vary) or 2 days for instructor-led training.
Optionally, earn a CloudBees CI Associate certification after this class.What you will learn
- Distinguish between DevOps concepts.
- Understand the relationship between CloudBees CI and DevOps concepts.
- Access the operations center, controllers, and information on a controller.
- Articulate the role of a CI Pipeline in the software development life cycle.
- Examine a Jenkinsfile and describe the job process defined in it.
- Run a Pipeline in CloudBees CI.
- Analyze the logs after a Pipeline run is completed.
- Explain additional job runs that may take place after a successful CI Pipeline run.
Audience
- Anyone who needs introductory usage and hands-on experience with CloudBees CI.
- End users in both managerial and implementation roles, such as individuals who need to navigate the CloudBees CI user interface, view and run jobs, or review job status.
- Individuals who wish to take additional CloudBees CI Level 1 and Level 2 courses.
- Roles may be DevOps Engineer, Developer, QA Engineer, Operations Engineer, Release Manager, Engineering Manager, Administrator.
Prerequisites
- Complete the CloudBees CI: Essentials course.
- The CloudBees CI Essentials certification is not required before this course but is recommended to ensure proficiency in this foundational knowledge.
- General familiarity with the software development life cycle.
Certifications
After completing this course, you will be prepared for the following certification exams.
NOTE: Admins should skip to the CloudBees CI Admin Associate certification. DevOps Engineers should skip to the CloudBees CI DevOps Associate certification.
CloudBees CI Associate
Users of CloudBees CI can test their basic usage and implementation knowledge. Admins should skip to the Admin Associate certification.
CloudBees CI Level 1: Administration
About this course
This course combines informational and instructional curriculum with more advanced hands-on exercises focused on administrative tasks for CloudBees CI.
After completing this course, the student will gain hands-on guided experience with administrative tasks. More detailed implementation, configuration, and best practices for specific administrative tasks are covered in Level 2 courses.
Earn a CloudBees CI Admin Associate certification after this class, starting in December 2022.
What you will learn
Students will learn how to perform basic CloudBees CI administrative tasks in preparation for CloudBees CI Level 2 admin courses.
Audience
The course is for anyone who needs introductory, hands-on usage knowledge and experience for CloudBees CI administrative tasks. It is also a required prerequisite for CloudBees CI Level 2 admin courses.
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of command line usage, scripting, and security is recommended.
- Before proceeding, it is required that you have completed the CloudBees CI Level 1: Basics course and its prerequisites.
Certifications
After completing this course, you will be prepared for the following certification exams.
NOTE: Admins can skip the CloudBees CI Associate certification and go straight to the CloudBees CI Admin Associate certification.
CloudBees CI Admin Associate
DevOps Engineers, Administrators, and Operations Engineers can test their proficiency with CloudBees CI administrative tasks.
CloudBees CI Level 1: Pipeline Implementation
About this course
This course builds on topics covered in CloudBees CI Level 1: Basics. It focuses on building and implementing Pipelines for CloudBees CI and reinforces learning with progressively more specialized hands-on exercises.
Course duration with lab exercises is approximately 8 hours for self-paced (your times may vary) or 2 days of instructor-led training.
Earn a CloudBees CI DevOps Engineer Associate certification after this class, starting in early 2023.
What you will learn
- Implement stages and steps for a simple Declarative Pipeline
- Create and configure a multibranch Pipeline
- Implement a multi-environment Declarative Pipeline
- Implement parallelization
- Control Pipeline flow of execution with options and directives
- Troubleshoot common Pipeline errors
- Call custom steps from a shared library
- Build a Pipeline with a standardized Pipeline template in a Pipeline Template Catalog
- Create an organization folder with a custom project recognizer
Audience
This course is for anyone who oversees the entire DevOps process and needs hands-on implementation knowledge and experience for CloudBees CI Pipelines. It is also a required prerequisite for CloudBees CI Level 2: Pipeline Advanced Implementation course.
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of scripting is recommended but not required.
- Before proceeding, it is required that you have completed the CloudBees CI Level 1: Basics course and its prerequisites.
Certifications
After completing this course, you will be prepared for the following certification exams.
CloudBees CI DevOps Associate
Test your knowledge of building and implementing Pipelines.
CloudBees CI Level 2: Advanced Pipeline Implementation
About this course
This course builds on topics covered in CloudBees CI Level 2: Pipeline Implementation. It focuses on DevOps implementation for establishing and enforcing Pipeline standards as well as improving Pipeline efficiency.
Course duration with lab exercises is approximately 4 hours for self-paced (your time may vary) or 1 day for instructor-led training.
This course will be available in early 2023.
Earn a CloudBees CI Pipeline Advanced Implementation digital badge after this class.
Optionally earn the CloudBees CI DevOps Professional certification, starting in 2023, after taking all level 2 courses for DevOps Engineers.
What you will learn
- Configure folder/job access
- Configure Pipeline policies
- Configure remote collaboration
- Configure Pipeline Template Catalogs
- Configure shared libraries
Audience
This course is for DevOps Engineers and Operations Engineers who establish and enforce Pipeline standards as well as focus on Pipeline efficiency.
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of scripting is recommended but not required.
- Before proceeding, it is required that you have completed the CloudBees CI Level 1: Pipeline Implementation course and its prerequisites.
- The CloudBees CI DevOps Associate certification is not required before this course but is recommended to ensure proficiency in this foundational knowledge.
Digital Badge
After completing this course, you will be prepared for the following digital badge quiz.
CloudBees CI Advanced Pipeline Implementation
DevOps Engineers can test their knowledge of establish and enforce Pipeline standards as well as focus on Pipeline efficiency.
Certifications
After completing this course, you will be prepared for the following certification exams.
CloudBees CI DevOps Professional
Test your in-depth Continuous Integration knowledge as a DevOps Professional.
CloudBees CI Level 2: Configuration as Code
About this course
This level 2 course provides advanced hands-on exercises focused on using Configuration as Code to automate CloudBees CI tasks taught in the CloudBees CI Level 1: Administration course as well as the two Pipeline courses for DevOps Engineers.
Earn a CloudBees CI Configuration as Code badge after this course.
This course is required for both the CloudBees CI DevOps Professional and CloudBees CI Admin Professional certifications.
NOTE: Course, badge, and the CloudBees CI DevOps Professional certification to be released in early 2023.
Digital Badge
After completing this course, you will be prepared for the following digital badge quiz.
CloudBees CI Configuration as Code
DevOps Engineers can test their knowledge of implementing Configuration as Code.
Certifications
After completing this course, you will be prepared for the following certification exams.
CloudBees CI DevOps Professional
Test your in-depth Continuous Integration knowledge as a DevOps Professional.
CloudBees CI Level 2: Administration series
About this course
This series of courses provides advanced hands-on exercises focused on administrative tasks for CloudBees CI introduced in the CloudBees CI Level 1: Administration course.
Earn a CloudBees CI Admin badge after each course in the series. After successfully earning all the badges, validate your proficiency by taking the CloudBees CI Professional Admin certification exam.
NOTE: Courses and badges to be released throughout 2022 and 2023. Instructor-led training and the CloudBees CI Professional Admin certification exam to be released in 2023.
Digital Badges
Digital badges to be released throughout 2022 and 2023.
Certifications
After completing this course, you will be prepared for the following certification exams.
CloudBees CI Admin Professional
Test your in-depth Continuous Integration knowledge as a professional administrator.