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Course Outline
Lightweight CI Autonomy
- Understanding how cloud CI/CD services can lead to vendor lock-in and expose secrets.
- Woodpecker CI design principles: simplicity, Docker-native compatibility, and forge-agnosticism.
- Comparisons with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Drone, and Jenkins.
Server and Agent Deployment
- Docker Compose stack configuration: server, agents, and database.
- Environment variables and Forge OAuth registration.
- Agent labels, capacity planning, and resource constraints.
Pipeline Authoring
- Syntax of woodpecker.yml: steps, services, and conditional logic.
- Selecting Docker images and mounting workspaces.
- Parallel execution and dependency chaining.
Forge Integration
- Webhook configuration for Gitea and Forgejo.
- Branch filtering, PR triggers, and tag events.
- Commit status reporting and badge generation.
Secrets and Security
- Scopes for repository, organisation, 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.
- Cache plugin usage 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 Gitea or Forgejo administration.
Target Audience
- DevOps teams requiring lightweight, self-hosted CI for Gitea/Forgejo.
- Organisations seeking to avoid GitHub Actions or GitLab CI SaaS solutions.
- Small-to-medium teams desiring pipeline autonomy 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.
