Originally announced via PR Newswire on October 6, 2020. Source: prnewswire.com
Linux Foundation Releases Jenkins Essentials Training Course (LFS267)
The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), announced the availability of a new instructor-developed training course: LFS267 – Jenkins Essentials. The course targets DevOps engineers, Quality Assurance (QA) professionals, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), software developers, and architects who want to build practical expertise with Jenkins for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows.
Why Jenkins Still Matters
Jenkins is an open-source automation server that has been a cornerstone of software delivery pipelines since its inception in 2004. With hundreds of plugins covering build, test, deploy, and notification workflows, it remains one of the most widely adopted CI servers in the industry. As organizations migrate workloads to Kubernetes and adopt GitOps practices, the need to operate Jenkins at scale—and to integrate it cleanly into cloud-native environments—has grown significantly.
What You Will Learn in LFS267
The course is structured to take learners from foundational Jenkins operations through advanced, production-grade configurations. Key topics include:
- Running Jenkins on Kubernetes – deploying and managing Jenkins controller and agents inside a Kubernetes cluster.
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) automation – automating Jenkins installation and configuration using IaC principles to eliminate manual, error-prone setup.
- High availability – architecting a highly available Jenkins environment to minimize downtime.
- Scaling with static and dynamic agents – leveraging both pre-provisioned static build agents and on-demand dynamic agents to match workload requirements.
- CLI and REST API automation – scripting routine Jenkins administrative tasks to reduce toil.
- Fine-grained security controls – implementing role-based access and job-level security to protect CI/CD pipelines.
- Effective CI/CD feedback loops – configuring notifications and reporting so teams get actionable build and test feedback quickly.
- Multi-branch pipelines – building complex, real-world pipelines that handle feature branches, release branches, and hotfixes simultaneously.
- GitOps-driven pull request workflows – automating PR validation and merge gates using GitOps principles.
Together, these skills map directly to SRE, DevOps engineer, and release engineer job responsibilities.
Prerequisites
Students should arrive with a working understanding of Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Docker before enrolling. If you need to fill gaps in any of those areas, the Linux Foundation offers free introductory courses that can serve as on-ramps:
- Introduction to Jenkins (LFS167x) – free foundational Jenkins course.
- Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies – covers core cloud and container concepts.
- Introduction to Kubernetes – covers Kubernetes fundamentals needed to follow the cluster-deployment labs.
Course Authors
LFS267 was developed by Himanshu Gautam and Deepika Gautam, co-founders of Aplima Inc., a CI/CD solutions provider.
Himanshu brings more than 20 years of software engineering experience. He is a practitioner focused on cloud-native architecture and DevOps culture, and also authored the CI/CD with Jenkins X (LFS268) course for the Linux Foundation.
Deepika has nearly two decades of software industry experience specializing in DevOps toolchain implementation across multi-cloud environments. She authored the Introduction to Jenkins (LFS167x) course.
Pricing and Access
At the time of announcement, LFS267 was priced at $299, which includes unlimited access to all course content and hands-on labs for one year. The course was available to enroll immediately upon announcement.
Note: Pricing and availability may have changed since the original October 2020 announcement. Check the Linux Foundation Training catalog for current details.
About the Linux Foundation and the Continuous Delivery Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts collaborative development of critical open-source infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, and Node.js, and is supported by more than 1,000 member organizations.
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) is a vendor-neutral, Linux Foundation-hosted organization dedicated to improving software delivery through security and speed. The CDF stewards some of the fastest-growing CD projects, including Jenkins, Jenkins X, Tekton, and Spinnaker, and drives best-practice education and cross-project collaboration across the CD ecosystem.