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Course Outline
Lightweight CI Sovereignty
- Understanding how cloud CI/CD services can lead to vendor lock-in and secret exposure risks.
- Woodpecker CI design principles: simplicity, Docker-nativeness, and forge agnosticism.
- Benchmarking against 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 Forge OAuth.
- Managing agent labels, capacity planning, and resource constraints.
Pipeline Authoring
- woodpecker.yml syntax: defining 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 status and generating badges.
Secrets and Security
- Managing secret scopes at the repository, organization, and global levels.
- Injecting credentials for deployment stages.
- Ensuring network isolation and differentiating trusted vs. untrusted agents.
Matrix Builds and Caching
- Creating multi-language and multi-version test matrices.
- Using the cache plugin for dependency directories.
- Uploading artifacts to S3-compatible storage.
Operations
- Maintaining server logs, agent telemetry, and queue inspection.
- Scaling agents horizontally via 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 Gitea or Forgejo administration.
Target Audience
- DevOps teams requiring lightweight, self-hosted CI for Gitea or Forgejo.
- Organizations seeking to avoid reliance on GitHub Actions or GitLab CI SaaS.
- Small-to-medium teams prioritizing pipeline sovereignty without unnecessary bloat.
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.
