Implementing a CI/CD Pipeline

Technology Overview

• Terraform – Infrastructure control (optional with 5-day delivery)
• Git - Source Control Management
• Chef - Configuration Management
• Inspec - Cookbook Testing
• Jenkins - Continuous Integration
• Docker – Containerization (optional for 4-day delivery)

Terraform – Infrastructure Automation (optional with 5-day delivery)

• Terraform use and purpose
• Getting started with Terraform
• General concepts
• Installation
• Configuration Files
• Provisioning and Building Infrastructure
• Changing Infrastructure
• Destroying Infrastructure
• Resource Dependencies
• Input Variables
• Output Variables
• Modules – Pre-defined Configurations
• Remote state management
• Terraform Enterprise
• Triggering a Plan from Version Control
• Workspaces
• Terraform Enterprise Runs
• Migration from Open Source to Enterprise
• AWS
  
  • Managing infrastructure in AWS
  • Creating IAM Policies
  • Authenticating to AWS
  • Launching a serverless application - Lambda
• Azure
  
  • Managing infrastructure in Azure
  • Authentication Methods for Azure
• Git – Source Control Management
  
  • Purpose and overview of Git
  • Use cases for Git
  • Git workflow
  • Github, Bitbucket and other Git providers
  • Installation and configuration
  • Finding help on Git
  • Creating Local Git Repositories
  • Basic Git Commands
  • Comparing commits
  • Using a Remote Repository
  • Branching and Merging
  • Using SSH keys with Git private repositories
  • Chef – Configuration Management
  • Chef Architecture and call flow
  • Chef Use cases
  • Idempotence
  • Resources
  • Recipes
  • Cookbooks
  • Integration Testing and Test Kitchen
  • Chef Server – a central management repository
  • Ohai, Attributes and the Node Object
  • Chef Roles
• Jenkins – Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
  
  • Jenkins Overview, Use Cases and History
  • Initializing a Jenkins server
  • Projects & Jobs
  • Freestyle versus Pipeline
  • Writing a Declarative Pipeline Project - CI/CD as Code
  • Distributing builds using Master and Agent Nodes
  • Views and Folders
  • Managing Credentials
  • Integrating with Git - Source Control Management
  • Triggers: Webhooks and Polling
  • Notifications: Slack and SMTP Email
  • Testing Chef Cookbooks with Test Kitchen in Jenkins
  • Multibranch Pipelines - Reading Entire Repositories
  • Using Maven to Compile, Test & Package Java Applications
  • Storing artifacts in JFrog Artifactory
  • Deploying Chef cookbooks with Jenkins
• Docker – Containerization And Micro-Service (optional with 4-day delivery)
  
  • Container Use cases: what problems Docker solves
  • Docker Concepts and Components
  • Most-used Docker Commands
  • Storing Docker images
  • Docker Compose
  • Launching microservices using Docker
  • Building a Docker Image using Jenkins
  • Deploying a Docker container using Chef and Jenkins

Finally, we’ll create the end-to-end Pipeline using Git, Chef & Jenkins:

Three-day option:

• Write Chef cookbooks with Inspec tests
• Push the cookbooks to a branch within a Git repo
• This push will automatically trigger Jenkins to download the cookbooks
• Jenkins will then initiate testing the Chef cookbooks using Test Kitchen
• If any tests fail, Jenkins notifies the developer to fix and repeat the build
• Once all tests pass, Jenkins can require human approval. Once approved, Jenkins will upload the cookbooks to the Chef Server
• Jenkins will then trigger Chef-managed webservers (in AWS) to download the cookbooks from the Chef Server and deploy the cookbook code
• Jenkins will then send notifications over both Slack and email regarding any failures or the successful deployment of the cookbooks

Four-day option adds:

• Upon successful testing in Test Kitchen, create and save a Docker image
• Notify teams of successful deployment of Docker containers

Five-day option adds:

• Write Inspec tests for Terraform configurations
• Test our Terraform Configuration in Test Kitchen
• Jenkins will use Terraform to launch Docker Hosts running Docker containers, as well as use Chef to configure those containers to run micro-services

• Maintain code using Git and Github
• Create, test, and deploy Chef cookbooks through a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline
• Complete integration tests with Inspec and Test Kitchen
• Write CI/CD as code using Groovy Pipeline syntax in Jenkins
• Compile, test, package, and permanently store Java applications using Maven
• Store artifacts in JFrog Artifactory

• DevOps Engineers
• System Operations
• Code Developers
• Software Developers
• Quality Assurance Professionals
• Software Testers
• Product Owners
• Infrastructure Engineers
• Development Team Members
• Operations Team Members
• Project Managers
• Technical Product Managers