Course Outline
Lightweight CI Sovereignty
- Understanding how cloud CI/CD services create vendor lock-in and expose secret risks.
- Woodpecker CI design objectives: simplicity, Docker-native architecture, and forge-agnosticism.
- Comparisons with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Drone, and Jenkins.
Server and Agent Deployment
- Setting up the Docker Compose stack: server, agents, and database.
- Configuring environment variables and registering Forge OAuth details.
- Utilising agent labels, capacity planning, and resource limits.
Pipeline Authoring
- Mastering the woodpecker.yml syntax: steps, services, and conditions.
- Selecting Docker images and mounting workspaces.
- Implementing parallel execution and dependency chains.
Forge Integration
- Configuring webhooks for Gitea and Forgejo.
- Managing branch filtering, PR triggers, and tag events.
- Generating commit status reports and badges.
Secrets and Security
- Understanding repository, organisation, and global secret scopes.
- Injecting credentials for deployment stages.
- Ensuring network isolation and managing trusted versus untrusted agents.
Matrix Builds and Caching
- Constructing multi-language and multi-version test matrices.
- Utilising the cache plugin for dependency directories.
- Uploading artifacts to S3-compatible storage.
Operations
- Monitoring server logs, agent telemetry, and queue status.
- Horizontally scaling agents using Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
- Backing up and restoring pipeline history and secrets.
Requirements
- Intermediate experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of Linux server administration and Docker.
- Familiarity with the administration of Gitea or Forgejo.
Audience
- DevOps teams requiring lightweight, self-hosted CI for Gitea/Forgejo.
- Organisations seeking to avoid GitHub Actions or GitLab CI SaaS offerings.
- Small-to-medium teams desiring pipeline sovereignty without excessive overhead.
Custom Corporate Training
Training solutions designed exclusively for businesses.
- Customized Content: We adapt the syllabus and practical exercises to the real goals and needs of your project.
- Flexible Schedule: Dates and times adapted to your team's agenda.
- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
Price per private group, online live training, starting from 2600 € + VAT*
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Testimonials (2)
I like that I've got immediately answer to my questions.
Szabolcs Kriston - Ericsson
Course - Advanced GitLab
I liked the easy communication between trainer and us, care given to our problems, insights and additional knowledge provided in anwers to our questions. I liked the pace, it didn't feel rushed at any point, even with technical problems. Each subject was taken care of properly.
