The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, is making significant updates to its certification offerings.
Jenkins World Offers Opportunities to Expand Jenkins and DevOps Knowledge
August 31, 2016
The Jenkins community announced a full program of add-on training, workshops and the ability to take a Jenkins certification exam for free at the upcoming Jenkins World conference, to be held September 13 – 15 in Santa Clara, CA.
Jenkins Certification Training and Free Certification Exam: September 12-13
This course, delivered by experts from |opensourcearchitect| and Nebulaworks, will prepare attendees for the Jenkins certification exam. It will cover all exam topics and there will also be a series of labs on several subjects addressed throughout the course. Attendees will:
- Learn from Jenkins experts: Both |opensourcearchitect| and Nebulaworks are certified to deliver Jenkins training and teach courses about Jenkins on an ongoing basis.
- Prepare for certification: Get ready for the Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE) and Certified CloudBees Jenkins Platform Engineer (CCJPE) exams.
- Take the training, then stick around for the conference: Jenkins World offers 50 sessions across a variety of topics and skill levels.
- Take a free certification exam: Offered at convenient times throughout the conference, and free, as long as you sign up for it at the time of conference registration.
Fundamentals of Jenkins Pipeline and Docker Training: September 12
This course is an introduction to the Pipeline plugin, used in combination with Docker. Following an overview of Pipeline and Docker, participants will:
- Learn about the need for Pipeline: Understand key use cases, structure/syntax and execution control.
- See how to prepare Docker environments: Get exposure to key Docker tools and learn how to create a deployment lifecycle with Pipeline and Docker.
- Gain hands-on experience: Watch and learn, live, as you work on two actual projects with Pipeline and Docker experts.
Workshops: September 13
- The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit Workshop: This workshop will cover the entire microservices development lifecycle, from architecture design through to production and beyond.
- Let’s Build a Jenkins Pipeline! Jenkins Pipeline is a game-changing way to write automation jobs with Jenkins. Come learn how.
- Preparing for Jenkins Certification: Assess your readiness for the Jenkins certification exam.
- Introduction to Plugin Development: This workshop will introduce developers to the Jenkins plugin ecosystem and terminology, as well as identify the developer resources available.
- CD and DevOps Maturity Workshop for Managers: In this workshop, we will review the definition of DevOps, its relationship to continuous delivery (CD) and explore a simple, lightweight model for measuring organizational DevOps maturity.
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