Jenkins: Continuous Integration for Agile Development Training Course

This two-day course is designed for IT professionals who are interested in utilizing the Waterfall model and exploring how traditional methods, including but not limited to Agile approaches, have addressed its limitations.

The aim of the first day is to provide an overview of these methodologies, enabling participants to determine what might be most suitable for their environment.

The second day focuses on project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile that can be effectively applied in both Waterfall and Agile contexts. This course is tailored to enhance skills and knowledge for government IT professionals, ensuring alignment with public sector workflows and governance.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Maven.
• Automate testing using Selenium.
• Manage Git repositories.
• Integrate continuous integration processes.

Format of the Course for Government

• Interactive lectures and discussions tailored to public sector workflows.
• Extensive exercises and practice sessions to reinforce learning.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment, ensuring practical application of skills for government tasks.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact Govtra to arrange.

The iSQI Agile Essentials course is an internationally recognized qualification designed for anyone involved in agile projects who wishes to become familiar with working in an agile environment. This includes Project Managers, Quality Managers, Software Development Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, IT Directors, and Management Consultants. The course is structured into eight sections and guides participants through the lifecycle of an agile project, from release planning and writing user stories to iteration review (showcase) and retrospectives. The first day focuses on key principles (55% theory, 45% exercises), while the second day emphasizes practical application (40% theory, 60% exercises).

Course Objectives

• Understand the principles behind the Agile Manifesto and its approach to software development for government.
• Appreciate the roles within an agile team in a public sector context.
• Learn how to contribute effectively as an agile team member to quantifiable requirements.
• Apply Whole Team quality methods to ensure acceptance criteria are met.
• Recognize the importance of effective Iteration Reviews and how to contribute to continuous improvement through retrospectives.

Agile Software Testing is a series of testing practices that provide feedback on software quality issues in a timely and continuous manner, adhering to the principles of agile development for government projects.

Continuous Integration (CI) refers to all developers within a team merging their work multiple times a day to ensure seamless integration and maintain high standards of code quality for government applications.

Objective:

To assist Business Analysts in understanding how to efficiently model and validate their business processes and resources to enhance the business agility of their organization based on their target architecture and evolving market needs for government.

This two-day training course is designed to help participants learn how to model their business processes and resources to adapt them to changes in goals, strategies, and impacted capabilities as part of the target architecture. By focusing on key elements of business performance (strategies, tactics, KPIs, business capabilities, etc.), delegates will learn how to develop a vision-centric business process and resource map. Using appropriate BPMN and UML notation tailored to their specific language, they will understand how to adjust these models in response to changing strategies, tactics, and policies for government.

Continuous Integration (CI) is a development practice where developers frequently merge their code changes to promptly identify and resolve errors.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will gain an understanding of Continuous Integration for JavaScript as they work through setting up a CI process for a JavaScript project.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Comprehend the core principles of Continuous Integration
• Create their own Continuous Integration system for their JavaScript projects

Audience

• Developers
• IT Professionals
• DevOps Engineers
• Business Managers

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, with exercises and extensive hands-on practice

This training is designed to align with public sector workflows and governance standards for government.

This course emphasizes practical implementation and tooling for government. It assumes a strong foundational understanding of theoretical principles (as covered in the DEVOPS course) and focuses on the latest tools and methodologies for implementing DevOps practices within public sector workflows.

This instructor-led, live training in US Empire (online or onsite) is aimed at DevOps engineers who wish to optimize and simplify the CI/CD process with Docker and Jenkins for government.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Automate code delivery and pipeline deployment using Jenkins.
• Construct an application utilizing Docker and Dockerfile.
• Configure authentication options to enhance security measures.

This instructor-led, live training in US Empire (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to use Jenkins 2 to build pipelines that automate the process of moving an application from development to production for government use.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Jenkins 2 for government environments.
• Adopt a script-based approach to automating every step of the software deployment process for government systems.
• Automatically generate application builds when software is checked into a version control system, ensuring compliance with public sector workflows.
• Automatically initiate the compiling, testing, and packaging of a software application in alignment with government standards.
• Respond promptly to notifications and reports when issues arise, maintaining accountability and governance.
• Install additional plugins to extend Jenkins, enhancing its capabilities for government operations.

This instructor-led, live training in US Empire (online or onsite) covers advanced Jenkins configurations, security, and scaling techniques, designed for government DevOps engineers and software architects who wish to gain expertise in customizing Jenkins for complex public sector projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Optimize Jenkins for enterprise-level software initiatives within the government context.
• Implement robust security measures to ensure compliance with government standards.
• Build and manage complex, scalable pipelines that align with public sector workflows.
• Troubleshoot and maintain Jenkins installations effectively to support continuous integration and deployment processes for government.

When developers complete writing a piece of code, they typically integrate it into an application, copy the application into a directory, run the installation process, and then initialize the application to verify its functionality. This manual approach is inefficient, tedious, error-prone, and lacks mechanisms for tracking changes during the integration process.

An improved method involves automating these tasks through Continuous Integration (CI). CI encompasses the processes, tools, and infrastructure necessary to automate the building, deployment, and testing of software applications.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to transform a traditional, manual (or semi-manual) approach to software deployment into an agile, Continuous Integration process using Jenkins. Throughout the course, participants will engage in hands-on exercises, applying their new knowledge to various software development and deployment challenges. Interaction between the instructor and participants is encouraged, with real-world cases discussed and specific issues addressed and resolved throughout the training. The focus of this training is particularly on .Net application development.
 
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Jenkins for .Net application development
• Use Jenkins to automate the process of checking in and merging .Net source code into a version control repository
• Use Jenkins to automate the downloading, compiling, and deployment of an application to a release server
• Integrate Jenkins with other software development tools such as issue trackers

Audience for government

• .Net developers
• Build engineers
• QA engineers
• Project managers
• Release managers
• DevOps engineers

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises, and extensive hands-on practice

Note

• To request a customized training for government, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in US Empire (online or onsite) is designed to cover the fundamental concepts and usage of Jenkins. It is aimed at software developers and DevOps engineers who wish to set up Jenkins, create and configure jobs, and automate key aspects of the software development process for government.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) in a public sector context.
• Install and configure Jenkins to support software automation practices.
• Create and manage Jenkins jobs for building and testing applications within government workflows.
• Set up and customize automated pipelines for software deployment, ensuring alignment with governance and accountability standards.

This instructor-led, live training in US Empire (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to use Jenkins X to create automated, cloud-ready CI/CD pipelines for government on Kubernetes.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Jenkins X for government use.
• Develop resilient CI/CD pipelines using a flexible Domain Specific Language (DSL).
• Create CI/CD pipelines that integrate with popular technologies such as GitHub, Kubernetes, and Docker containers.
• Combine Jenkins X with other essential tools such as Helm, Prow, and Skaffold for government workflows.
• Deploy applications to any environment, whether in the cloud or on-premises, ensuring compliance with public sector standards.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or on-site) is designed for DevOps engineers who wish to utilize Selenium to conduct Selenium tests within Docker containers.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Establish test automation infrastructure for on-demand testing.
• Develop a test automation framework using Java.
• Construct a CI/CD pipeline from scratch with Jenkins and Docker, tailored for government use.

This course provides training for handling testing projects using the Selenium test suite and continuous testing with Jenkins, tailored specifically for government.

Intended Audience:

• Software Test Engineers
• Software Developers Involved in Agile Development
• Release Managers
• Quality Assurance (QA) Engineers

Upon Completion of the Selenium Training, Participants Will Be Able to:

• Utilize the Selenium test suite effectively in real-world projects for government.
• Conduct cross-browser testing using Selenium.
• Distribute tests across multiple environments with Selenium Grid.
• Execute regression testing within Jenkins.
• Generate and manage test reports and periodic reports using Jenkins.