CI Fundamentals

Welcome to the CI Fundamentals labs.

These are hands-on resources to help you learn Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD).

Pre-reqs

• Set up Docker and a Git client
• Create a GitHub account (free)
• Fork this repo
  • Browse to https://github.com/courselabs/ci-fundamentals.git
  • Click 🔱 Fork (top-right) to create your own copy of the repo
• Download your repo
  • Open a terminal (PowerShell, Bash, ZSH whatever you use)
  • Run: git clone <your-repo-address>
  • Open the folder: cd ci-fundamentals
• Optional
  • Install Visual Studio Code (free - Windows, macOS and Linux) to browse the repo and documentation

Part 1 - Getting Started with Continuous Integration

• Life before CI
• Your first CI pipeline
• On-prem CI with Jenkins
• Managed CI with GitHub Actions

Part 2 - Adding Continuous Testing and Deployment

• CI without testing
• Adding unit tests to the pipeline
• Publishing deployment artifacts
• Continuous Deployment to a test environment

Part 3 - Database Integration with CI/CD

• Databases without CI
• Building database packages from source
• Integration tests with disposable databases
• Continuous Deployment to database servers

Part 4 - Quality Assurance in the Pipeline

• Static code analysis
• System tests with mocks
• Functional tests with Cucumber
• Pull requests and code reviews

Part 5 - Best Practices for CI/CD

• Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
• Configuration and secret management
• Fast feedback and rollback
• Monitoring dashboards

Part 6 - Real-World Pipelines

• Blue/green deployments
• Canary rollouts
• Feature management
• Hackathon!

Credits

Created by @EltonStoneman (sixeyed): Freelance Consultant and Trainer. Author of Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches and many Pluralsight courses.

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