Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE) Prep Course

Application development in the age of Agile and DevOps means that today’s workflows need to embrace Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) to ensure that your team is keeping pace with ever-changing customer requirements and maintain your competitive edge in an increasingly dynamic marketplace. To do this, you need to design and implement the pipelines to support the speed and flexibility of modern application development. With its suite of powerful plug-ins, Jenkins has been an industry leader in pipeline automation and management for many years, and experienced Jenkins engineers are in ever higher demand. The best way to show your proficiency is by attaining the Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE) status.

In this video course, intended for those with intermediate-level experience or administrator-level proficiency with the open source version of Jenkins, your host, trainer and CJE, Benjamin Muschko, walks you through the topics covered in the exam so that you can fully prepare to pass and earn your CJE. You begin with an overview of the exam environment itself and the high-level goals of the exam. You then move on to a review of general CI/CD terminology and how it applies to Jenkins concepts. You’ll look at how to create CI/CD models that are scalable, maintainable, and secure. This video course offers many demonstrations to help reinforce what you're learning. When you’ve completed it, you should be in a good position to pass the exam and add the initials “CJE” to your title and resume.

What you’ll learn—and how you can apply it

• The objectives and abilities needed to pass the CJE exam
• Understand Jenkins features and plug-ins and how to apply them to solve different use cases
• How to install Jenkins
• How to model a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins
• How to set up Jenkins for scalability, maintainability, and security

This video course is for you because…

• You want to become a Certified Jenkins Engineer
• You're a developer who wants to create, configure, and manage your own CI/CD jobs and/or pipelines
• You're a Jenkins administrator and need to understand how to manage Jenkins instances on an enterprise level
• You're a QA tester and want to run tests in an automated fashion

Prerequisites:

• You should have experience with a Continuous Integration product (optimally Jenkins)
• You should be familiar with Continuous Integration and/or Continuous Delivery concepts
• Understanding of developer workflows (e.g., compilation, testing, packaging of binaries) and tooling (e.g., SCM)

Materials or downloads needed in advance:

• You will need access to a Jenkins instance, either local or remote. You can find the recommended setup in the Jenkins user documentation.
• CJE study guide (PDF)

Further resources:

• Jenkins 2: Up and Running (Book): Explains the ins and outs of Jenkins 2 features with a deep dive on build pipelines.
• Continuous delivery with Jenkins and Docker (Live Online Training): Leverages Jenkins 2 and Docker to simplify and standardize your pipeline.
• Building a deployment pipeline with Jenkins 2 (Live Online Training): Learn how to manage continuous integration and continuous delivery to release software.