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Course Outline
Achieving CI Sovereignty with Lightweight Solutions
- Understanding how cloud CI/CD services can lead to vendor lock-in and secret exposure risks.
- Woodpecker CI design goals: simplicity, Docker-native compatibility, and forge-agnostic support.
- Comparison with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Drone, and Jenkins.
Deploying Server and Agents
- Configuring the Docker Compose stack, including the server, agents, and database.
- Setting up environment variables and Forge OAuth registration.
- Managing agent labels, capacity planning, and resource limits.
Authoring Pipelines
- Understanding the woodpecker.yml syntax: steps, services, and conditions.
- Selecting Docker images and mounting workspaces.
- Implementing parallel execution and dependency chains.
Integrating with Forges
- Configuring webhooks for Gitea and Forgejo.
- Setting up branch filtering, pull request triggers, and tag events.
- Generating badges and reporting commit statuses.
Managing Secrets and Security
- Defining secret scopes: repository, organization, and global.
- Injecting credentials for deployment stages.
- Ensuring network isolation and managing trusted versus untrusted agents.
Matrix Builds and Caching Strategies
- Creating multi-language and multi-version test matrices.
- Utilizing the cache plugin for dependency directories.
- Uploading artifacts to S3-compatible storage.
Operations and Maintenance
- 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 experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of 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 alternatives to GitHub Actions or GitLab CI SaaS.
- Small to medium-sized teams desiring pipeline sovereignty without unnecessary overhead.
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.
