Jenkins Essential Training
Configure freestyle jobs for Java, .NET and C++ builds, schedule and chain them, manage plugins and credentials, and notify your team. Learn Jenkins through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Jenkins levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Jenkins Essential Training.
Understand where Jenkins fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Jenkins is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Jenkins program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Essential.
Private Jenkins training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Jenkins training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Jenkins usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Essential | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Essential | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 2 Days | Corporate | Jenkins Essential Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Jenkins training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Automate builds with Jenkins
Install Jenkins and create freestyle and pipeline jobs that build, test and package code on every change.
Integrate the delivery toolchain
Connect Jenkins to Git, build tools, test tools, quality gates, Jira, Docker and cloud platforms.
Run Jenkins at scale
Secure, back up, upgrade and scale Jenkins for multiple teams with code-defined configuration.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Jenkins responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Jenkins matters
- Jenkins helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Jenkins becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Jenkins effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Jenkins concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Jenkins in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Jenkins for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Jenkins usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Jenkins.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Essential. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: CI concepts, Jenkins installation and first jobDay 1
- Let's understand continuous integration: what CI is, its benefits, and continuous delivery vs continuous deployment
- Continuous integration tools: Jenkins vs TeamCity vs Bamboo, and where GitHub Actions and GitLab CI fit
- What is Jenkins: controller and agent architecture, jobs, builds, workspaces, executors and plugins
- Jenkins installation prerequisites: supported Java 17 or 21, memory, disk, ports and firewall rules
- Installing Jenkins on Linux: using yum or dnf on RHEL-family systems and using apt on Ubuntu and Debian
- Installing Jenkins on Windows and Tomcat: the MSI installer, and deploying jenkins.war on Tomcat
- Installing as a service: systemd unit or Windows service, starting and stopping Jenkins, initial admin password
- Jenkins in a container: running the official image with a persistent jenkins_home volume
- Jenkins home directory: jenkins_home layout, jobs, workspace, plugins and config.xml files
- Jenkins dashboard tour: setup wizard, suggested plugins, first admin user, navigation and build history
- Understand the freestyle project: what it is and when to choose freestyle or pipeline jobs
- Creating a simple job: run a shell or batch step, read console output and rebuild from build history
Essential Level = Foundation + Freestyle jobs, triggers, plugins and notificationsDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Freestyle general tab: description, discard old builds, parameters, restricting where the project runs
- Freestyle source code management tab: Git repository URL, credentials and branches to build
- Jobs scheduling: manual builds, build periodically on a fixed cron schedule, poll SCM, trigger builds remotely by script
- Build trigger based on push to Git: GitHub and GitLab webhooks compared with SCM polling
- Freestyle build environment, build steps and post-build actions: workspace cleanup, timestamps, archiving artifacts
- Manage Jenkins: system configuration and global tool configuration for JDK, Maven, Ant, Gradle and Git
- My views, people and credentials: list views, the user directory, credential types and scopes
- Java build jobs: simple Java applications built with Maven, Ant and Groovy
- Windows and native build jobs: simple .NET application with MSBuild and C++ application with a batch build
- Useful job configuration: parameterised jobs, executing concurrent builds and job executors
- Job chaining: build other projects, build after other projects are built, throttle builds
- Jenkins plugins: installing, configuring and updating plugins, plugin documentation on plugins.jenkins.io
- Notification and feedback: email notification, advanced Email Extension notifications and Slack notification
- CI build pipeline and dashboard: visualising upstream and downstream jobs with pipeline views and dashboards
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Jenkins levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Install Jenkins and run a job
Install Jenkins as a service on Ubuntu or Windows, complete the setup wizard and create a freestyle job that runs a script and keeps its build history.
Build and chain freestyle jobs
Create parameterised freestyle jobs that build a Java Maven app on every Git push, trigger a downstream test job and send email and Slack notifications.
Jenkins is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Jenkins with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Jenkins certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Jenkins level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Jenkins Essential Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
What learners say about training with Rajesh Kumar.
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Jenkins path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Jenkins Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Jenkins level fits your team.
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Training snapshots and certificate preview.
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Tool-focused training
Course visuals reinforce the Jenkins workflow and subject area.
Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
Start Jenkins Essential training.
Next weekday batch starts on the 1st; weekend batch on the first Saturday. Batches are capped at 10 learners. Send your details and DevOpsSchool will share the syllabus and batch options.