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Course Outline
Lightweight CI Autonomy
- Understanding the risks of vendor lock-in and data exposure with cloud CI/CD services.
- Woodpecker CI design principles: simplicity, Docker-native architecture, and forge-agnosticism.
- Comparing Woodpecker CI with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Drone, and Jenkins.
Server and Agent Deployment
- Setting up the Docker Compose stack: server, agents, and database.
- Configuring environment variables and registering with Forge OAuth.
- Utilizing agent labels, capacity planning, and resource limits.
Pipeline Authoring
- Understanding woodpecker.yml syntax: steps, services, and conditions.
- Selecting Docker images and mounting workspaces.
- Managing parallel execution and dependency chains.
Forge Integration
- Configuring webhooks for Gitea and Forgejo.
- Setting up branch filtering, pull request 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.
- Ensuring network isolation and distinguishing between trusted and untrusted agents.
Matrix Builds and Caching
- Implementing multi-language and multi-version test matrices.
- Using cache plugins 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 knowledge of Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Linux server administration and Docker.
- Familiarity with administering Gitea or Forgejo.
Audience
- DevOps teams requiring a lightweight, self-hosted CI solution for Gitea/Forgejo.
- Organizations seeking to avoid GitHub Actions or GitLab CI SaaS.
- Small-to-medium teams desiring pipeline control without unnecessary features.
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.
