Online Course

Jenkins for Robotics

Learn how to achieve continuous integration for robotics development

Course Overview

Jenkins is a very popular Java-based open-source continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) server. It supports a variety of (open-source) plugins for extending its features and therefore is potentially very powerful.

In this course, you’ll learn the basics to start using Jenkins to develop your robotics projects.

What You Will Learn

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Jenkins installation and initial setup

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Jenkins jobs

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Managing Users and Security

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Jenkins Pipelines

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Source Code Management Integration

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Test Integration

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Jenkins CLI

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No ROS setup is required. Everything is online.

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Intermediate Level

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Approx. 40 hours to complete

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Prerequisites

Linux for Robotics

Simulated Robot Used

TurtleBot 3 & Parrot AR.Drone

Throughout the course, you’ll use two simulated robots to learn and practice every topic in Jenkins

Syllabus

Unit 1: Introduction

What Jenkins is.
What Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD) means.
The importance of CI/CD for developers.
Why do people use Jenkins, among a host of CI/CD tools.
An example of ROS automation on Jenkins.

Unit 2: Installation and Initial Setup

In this Unit, you’ll learn create a script to install Jenkins and complete the initial, basic setup:

How to install Jenkins.
Initial setup for Jenkins.

Unit 3: Jenkins Jobs (Part 1)

A Jenkins job is one or more tasks you want Jenkins to perform.

In this unit, you will create your first basic Jenkins job, and you’ll learn:

What a Jenkins Job is.
Creating Jenkins jobs.
Running a job.

Unit 4: Jenkins Jobs (Part 2)

In this unit, you will learn:

Adding parameters to jobs.
Chaining jobs.

Unit 5: Managing Users and Security

In this Unit, you will learn:

How to create and manage users.
How to manage authentication and authorization in Jenkins.
How to assign and manage user roles.

Unit 6: Pipelines

Jenkins Pipeline is a set of plugins that implement continuous delivery pipelines into Jenkins.

In this unit, you will learn all the basics to start working with them:

What Jenkins Pipeline is.
How to create Jenkins pipelines.
How to run a Jenkins pipeline.
How to Parametrize a Jenkins pipeline.
How to Trigger a Jenkins pipeline from another pipeline or regular job.

Unit 7: Source Code Management Integration

In this Unit, you will learn:

How to connect your git repositories to Jenkins projects (jobs or pipelines).
How to trigger builds when you push code to your repository.

Unit 8: Test Integration

In this Unit, you will learn:

How to run tests as part of Jenkins pipelines.
How to run tests as part of Jenkins jobs.

Unit 9: Jenkins CLI

In this Unit, you will learn:

What is the Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI) is.
How to use the Jenkins CLI.
How to authenticate from the CLI.
How to trigger project (jobs or pipelines) builds from the CLI.

Unit 10: Exam

This exam covers the most critical Jenkins concepts that have been covered so far in this course.

What our students think

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“I really liked the learning approach based on projects and practical examples and I found the final project with an actual robot to be very useful and challenging.“

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