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Course Outline
Lightweight CI Sovereignty
- Understanding how cloud CI/CD services create vendor lock-in and expose sensitive secrets.
- Woodpecker CI design principles: simplicity, Docker-native architecture, and forge-agnostic compatibility.
- Comparative analysis with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Drone, and Jenkins.
Server and Agent Deployment
- Setting up the Docker Compose stack comprising the server, agents, and database.
- Configuring environment variables and registering OAuth applications for your Forge.
- Utilizing agent labels, capacity planning, and setting resource limits.
Pipeline Authoring
- Mastering the woodpecker.yml syntax, including steps, services, and conditional logic.
- Selecting Docker images and mounting workspaces.
- Managing parallel execution and dependency chains.
Forge Integration
- Configuring webhooks for Gitea and Forgejo.
- Implementing branch filtering, pull request triggers, and tag event handling.
- Reporting commit statuses and generating badges.
Secrets and Security
- Managing secret scopes at the repository, organization, and global levels.
- Injecting credentials during deployment stages.
- Establishing network isolation and distinguishing between trusted and untrusted agents.
Matrix Builds and Caching
- Creating multi-language and multi-version test matrices.
- Utilizing the cache plugin for dependency directories.
- Uploading artifacts to S3-compatible storage.
Operations
- Monitoring server logs, agent telemetry, and queue status.
- Horizontally scaling agents using Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
- Backing up and restoring pipeline history and secrets.
Requirements
- Intermediate experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with Linux server administration and Docker.
- Basic understanding of Gitea or Forgejo administration.
Audience
- DevOps teams requiring a lightweight, self-hosted CI solution for Gitea/Forgejo.
- Organizations seeking to avoid SaaS dependencies like GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
- Small-to-medium sized teams desiring 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.
