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Course Outline
Lightweight CI Sovereignty
- The risks of vendor lock-in and secret exposure associated with cloud CI/CD services.
- Woodpecker CI design principles: simplicity, Docker-native architecture, and forge agnosticism.
- A comparative analysis with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Drone, and Jenkins.
Server and Agent Deployment
- Docker Compose stack setup: server, agents, and database.
- Configuration of environment variables and Forge OAuth registration.
- Managing agent labels, capacity planning, and resource limitations.
Pipeline Authoring
- woodpecker.yml syntax covering steps, services, and conditional logic.
- Selecting Docker images and mounting workspaces.
- Implementing parallel execution and defining dependency chains.
Forge Integration
- Setting up webhooks for Gitea and Forgejo.
- Configuring branch filtering, PR triggers, and tag events.
- Generating commit status reports and badges.
Secrets and Security
- Managing repository, organization, and global secret scopes.
- Injecting credentials for deployment stages.
- Implementing network isolation and distinguishing between trusted and untrusted agents.
Matrix Builds and Caching
- Creating multi-language and multi-version test matrices.
- Using 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.
- Performing backups and restores for 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 for Gitea/Forgejo.
- Organizations looking to move away from GitHub Actions or GitLab CI SaaS.
- Small-to-medium teams desiring pipeline sovereignty without excessive complexity.
14 Hours
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.
