Source: prnewswire.com — Originally published October 6, 2020.
The Linux Foundation Releases Jenkins Essentials Course (LFS267)
The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), announced the availability of LFS267 – Jenkins Essentials, a new training course targeting DevOps engineers, Quality Assurance personnel, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), software developers, and architects who want to deepen their expertise with Jenkins for CI/CD workflows.
Why Jenkins Still Matters
Jenkins is an open-source automation server that offers hundreds of plugins supporting the building, deploying, and automation of virtually any software project. First released in 2004, Jenkins has maintained its position as one of the most widely adopted CI servers in the world. Its extensibility and large community make it a common choice for teams building CI/CD pipelines at scale.
What You Will Learn in LFS267
The course covers a broad range of practical, production-relevant Jenkins skills. By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Deploy Jenkins on Kubernetes — set up and manage Jenkins within a Kubernetes cluster for containerized workloads.
- Automate Jenkins installation with IaC — apply Infrastructure-as-Code principles to provision and configure Jenkins reliably.
- Configure a highly available Jenkins server — architect Jenkins for resilience and uptime in production environments.
- Scale with static and dynamic build agents — expand Jenkins infrastructure horizontally to handle varying build loads.
- Automate routine tasks via CLI and REST API — script and automate common Jenkins administration and job management tasks.
- Implement fine-grained security controls — secure Jenkins jobs and resources with role-based access and security policies.
- Set up effective CI/CD feedback loops — integrate notifications and reporting so teams get actionable build feedback quickly.
- Build complex multi-branch pipelines — create pipelines that mirror real-world branching strategies and release flows.
- Automate pull request workflows with GitOps — integrate Jenkins with Git repositories to trigger and validate PRs automatically.
These competencies map directly to SRE, DevOps engineer, and release engineer roles.
Prerequisites
Before enrolling in LFS267, students should have a working familiarity with Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Docker. Those who are new to any of these technologies can first complete free introductory courses from The Linux Foundation:
- Introduction to Jenkins (LFS167x)
- Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies
- Introduction to Kubernetes
About the Course Authors
LFS267 was developed by Himanshu Gautam and Deepika Gautam, co-founders of Aplima Inc., a CI/CD solutions provider.
Himanshu Gautam is an author, trainer, speaker, and software engineer with over 20 years of industry experience. He focuses on cloud-native architecture and DevOps practices, and has also authored the CI/CD with Jenkins X course (LFS268) for the Linux Foundation.
Deepika Gautam is an author, trainer, speaker, and DevOps evangelist with nearly two decades of software industry experience. She specializes in implementing DevOps toolchains across multi-cloud environments and authored the Introduction to Jenkins course (LFS167x).
About the Continuous Delivery Foundation
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) is a vendor-neutral organization under the Linux Foundation that works to establish best practices for software delivery automation, promote adoption of CD tooling, and encourage collaboration across the ecosystem. The CDF hosts several prominent open-source projects including Jenkins, Jenkins X, Tekton, and Spinnaker.
About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation supports open-source collaboration across software, standards, data, and hardware. It is home to critical infrastructure projects including Linux, Kubernetes, and Node.js, and is supported by more than 1,000 member organizations worldwide.