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Course Outline
Lightweight CI Sovereignty
- The risks of vendor lock-in and secret exposure with cloud CI/CD services.
- Woodpecker CI design principles: simplicity, Docker-native architecture, and forge-agnostic compatibility.
- Comparison with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Drone, and Jenkins.
Server and Agent Deployment
- Docker Compose stack setup: server, agents, and database.
- Environment variables and Forge OAuth registration.
- Agent labels, capacity planning, and resource limits.
Pipeline Authoring
- woodpecker.yml syntax: steps, services, and conditions.
- Selecting Docker images and mounting workspaces.
- Parallel execution and dependency chains.
Forge Integration
- Webhook configuration for Gitea and Forgejo.
- Branch filtering, pull request triggers, and tag events.
- Commit status reporting and badge generation.
Secrets and Security
- Scopes for repository, organization, and global secrets.
- Credential injection for deployment stages.
- Network isolation and managing trusted versus untrusted agents.
Matrix Builds and Caching
- 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 inspection.
- 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.
- Knowledge of Linux server administration and Docker.
- Familiarity with administering Gitea or Forgejo.
Target Audience
- DevOps teams seeking a lightweight, self-hosted CI solution for Gitea/Forgejo.
- Organizations looking to avoid GitHub Actions or GitLab CI SaaS offerings.
- Small to medium-sized teams desiring pipeline control 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.
