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Course Outline
Lightweight CI Sovereignty
- Understanding how cloud CI/CD services can lead to vendor lock-in and expose secrets.
- Woodpecker CI's design goals: simplicity, Docker-native architecture, and forge-agnostic compatibility.
- Comparison with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Drone, and Jenkins.
Server and Agent Deployment
- Docker Compose stack setup: server, agents, and database.
- Configuring environment variables and Forge OAuth registration.
- Managing agent labels, capacity planning, and resource limits.
Pipeline Authoring
- 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.
- Handling branch filtering, PR triggers, and tag events.
- Reporting commit statuses and generating badges.
Secrets and Security
- Defining repository, organization, and global secret scopes.
- Injecting credentials for deployment stages.
- Ensuring network isolation and managing trusted versus untrusted agents.
Matrix Builds and Caching
- Setting up 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.
- Scaling agents horizontally 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 administering Gitea or Forgejo.
Audience
- DevOps teams requiring lightweight self-hosted CI for Gitea/Forgejo.
- Organizations seeking to avoid GitHub Actions or GitLab CI SaaS solutions.
- Small to medium-sized teams desiring pipeline control without unnecessary bloat.
14 Hours
Testimonials (4)
Engaging, and hands on practise.
Balavignesh Elumalai - Scottish Power
Course - SonarQube for DevOps
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!
