Course Outline
Achieving Lightweight CI Sovereignty
- The risks of vendor lock-in and secret exposure inherent in cloud CI/CD services.
- Woodpecker CI core design principles: simplicity, Docker-native architecture, and forge-agnostic compatibility.
- Comparative analysis 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.
- Utilizing agent labels, capacity planning, and defining resource limits.
Pipeline Authoring
- Mastering woodpecker.yml syntax: steps, services, and conditional logic.
- Selecting Docker images and mounting workspaces.
- Implementing parallel execution and dependency chains.
Forge Integration
- Configuring webhooks for Gitea and Forgejo.
- Setting up branch filtering, pull request triggers, and tag events.
- Reporting commit statuses and generating badges.
Secrets and Security Management
- Managing secret scopes at the repository, organization, and global levels.
- Injecting credentials for deployment stages.
- Ensuring network isolation and distinguishing between trusted and untrusted agents.
Matrix Builds and Caching
- Running multi-language and multi-version test matrices.
- Using the cache plugin for dependency directories.
- Uploading artifacts to S3-compatible storage solutions.
Operations and Maintenance
- 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 proficiency in Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of Linux server administration and Docker.
- Familiarity with administering Gitea or Forgejo.
Target Audience
- DevOps teams seeking lightweight, self-hosted CI solutions for Gitea/Forgejo.
- Organizations aiming to avoid GitHub Actions or GitLab CI SaaS offerings.
- Small to medium-sized teams desiring full pipeline control without unnecessary bloat.
Testimonials (4)
Engaging, and hands on practise.
Balavignesh Elumalai - Scottish Power
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Trainer has in depth experince and well narreated in deed. The depth of the knowledge and the passion for teaching is highly appriciated.
Anup Kumar - SMR Automotive Mirrors Stuttgart
Course - Jenkins 2: Building CI/CD Pipelines
Being introduced to some technologies I wish I knew earlier.
Michel - Vanier College
Course - DevOps Practical Implementation and Tools
I like all the possibilities that I discovered in the course about DevOps options that I can apply in order to have a better CD/CI workflow!
