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Source Control & CI/CD - Hands-On

Source Control & CI/CD - Hands-On

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Apply professional Git workflows including branching, remote management, Cherry-pick, and Revert to maintain code integrity.

  • Configure Jenkins jobs, parameterized and scheduled builds, and Slave Nodes to scale CI/CD automation.

  • Secure Jenkins projects with Role-Based Access Control and build a full end-to-end deploy pipeline.

  • Write declarative Jenkins pipelines with conditional logic, chained builds, and Ansible Playbook integration.

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June 2026

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This course is part of the DevOps Pro: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD & IaC Specialization
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There are 3 modules in this course

In the modern software landscape, manual deployment is considered a failure. This course focuses on building the "Automated Highway" that connects developers to the production environment, ensuring speed without sacrificing quality. We begin with a masterclass in Git, moving beyond simple commits into professional workflows. You will learn to navigate branching strategies, perform clean rebases, and resolve the complex merge conflicts that occur in high-velocity teams.

The second half of the course shifts into the world of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) using Jenkins and GitHub Actions. You will learn to treat the deployment process as a repeatable, version-controlled pipeline. From managing build artifacts and scheduled jobs to configuring distributed slave nodes for scaling automation, you will build a system that automatically tests and prepares code for release. By the end of this track, you will have moved from "doing the work" to "building the engine that does the work," a fundamental requirement for any professional DevOps role. Every topic follows the same structure: read the concept, attempt the lab, then watch a solution video that walks through professional reasoning at every step. Who this is for: DevOps engineers, developers, and systems professionals with Linux experience who are ready to build automated deployment pipelines and treat infrastructure as code.

Master the essential workflows for modern software development. You will learn how to manage code repositories, collaborate with teams using forks and branches, and fix mistakes using reverts and cherry-picks.

What's included

8 videos14 readings1 assignment

8 videos•Total 42 minutes
  • Course Introduction•3 minutes
  • Solution: Clone Git Repository on Storage Server•3 minutes
  • Fork a Git Repository•3 minutes
  • Git Create Branches•5 minutes
  • New Video•8 minutes
  • Git Manage Remotes•7 minutes
  • Solution: Git Revert Some Changes•7 minutes
  • Solution: Git Cherry Pick•7 minutes
14 readings•Total 140 minutes
  • Clone Git Repository on Storage Server•10 minutes
  • Hands-On Lab: Clone Git Repository on Storage Server•10 minutes
  • Fork a Git Repository•10 minutes
  • Hands-On Lab: Fork a Git Repository•10 minutes
  • Git Create Branches•10 minutes
  • Lab: Git Create Branches•10 minutes
  • Git Merge Branches•10 minutes
  • Lab: Git Merge Branches•10 minutes
  • Git Manage Remotes•10 minutes
  • Lab: Git Manage Remotes•10 minutes
  • Git Revert Some Changes•10 minutes
  • Lab: Git Revert Some Changes•10 minutes
  • Git Cherry Pick•10 minutes
  • Hands-On Lab: Git Cherry Pick•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Version control with Git•30 minutes

Module Description: Learn to automate the "Build" and "Test" phases of the DevOps lifecycle. This module covers Jenkins job configuration, scheduling, and scaling your automation using Master-Slave architecture.

What's included

7 videos14 readings1 assignment

7 videos•Total 64 minutes
  • Configure Jenkins Job for Package Installation•8 minutes
  • Jenkins Parameterized Builds•5 minutes
  • Jenkins Scheduled Jobs•11 minutes
  • Jenkins Database Backup Job•7 minutes
  • Jenkins Slave Nodes•12 minutes
  • Jenkins Project Security•5 minutes
  • Jenkins Deploy Pipeline•16 minutes
14 readings•Total 140 minutes
  • Configure Jenkins Job for Package Installation•10 minutes
  • Lab: Configure Jenkins Job for Package Installation•10 minutes
  • Jenkins Parameterized Builds•10 minutes
  • Lab: Jenkins Parameterized Builds•10 minutes
  • Jenkins Scheduled Jobs•10 minutes
  • Lab: Jenkins Scheduled Jobs•10 minutes
  • Jenkins Database Backup Job•10 minutes
  • Lab: Jenkins Database Backup Job•10 minutes
  • Jenkins Slave Nodes•10 minutes
  • Lab: Jenkins Slave Nodes•10 minutes
  • Jenkins Project Security•10 minutes
  • Lab: Jenkins Project Security•10 minutes
  • Jenkins Deploy Pipeline•10 minutes
  • Lab: Jenkins Deploy Pipeline•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Continuous Integration with Jenkins•30 minutes

Move beyond simple jobs into complex automated workflows. You will learn to write "Pipeline as Code," manage multi-stage deployments, and integrate Ansible for automated infrastructure testing.

What's included

7 videos14 readings2 assignments

7 videos•Total 65 minutes
  • Solution: Jenkins Conditional Pipeline•12 minutes
  • Solution: Jenkins Deployment Job•19 minutes
  • Solution: Jenkins Chained Builds•12 minutes
  • Jenkins Multistage Pipeline•11 minutes
  • Create Ansible Inventory for App Server Testing•3 minutes
  • Troubleshoot and Create Ansible Playbook•4 minutes
  • Solution: Copy Data to App Servers using Ansible•5 minutes
14 readings•Total 140 minutes
  • Jenkins Conditional Pipeline•10 minutes
  • Hands-On Lab: Jenkins Conditional Pipeline•10 minutes
  • Jenkins Deployment Job•10 minutes
  • Hands-On Lab: Jenkins Deployment Job•10 minutes
  • Jenkins Chained Builds•10 minutes
  • Hands-On Lab: Jenkins Chained Builds•10 minutes
  • Jenkins Multistage Pipeline•10 minutes
  • Lab: Jenkins Multistage Pipeline•10 minutes
  • Create Ansible Inventory for App Server Testing•10 minutes
  • Lab: Create Ansible Inventory for App Server Testing•10 minutes
  • Troubleshoot and Create Ansible Playbook•10 minutes
  • Lab: Troubleshoot and Create Ansible Playbook•10 minutes
  • Copy Data to App Servers using Ansible•10 minutes
  • Hands-On Lab: Copy Data to App Servers using Ansible•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
  • Source Control & CI/CD•30 minutes
  • Advanced Pipelines & Automation•30 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

No prior Jenkins or CI/CD experience is required. The course begins with Git workflows and builds systematically into Jenkins job configuration, pipeline architecture, and Ansible integration. You do need to be comfortable with the Linux terminal and have a basic grasp of how software development workflows operate.

You'll gain hands-on experience with Git, GitHub, Jenkins (including Slave Nodes, RBAC, parameterized builds, scheduled jobs, deploy pipelines, and multistage declarative pipelines), and Ansible (including inventories and playbooks for app server testing and data distribution). These are among the most widely used tools in professional DevOps roles.

Pipeline as Code means defining your entire CI/CD workflow in a version-controlled file rather than configuring it manually through a UI. This makes pipelines repeatable, auditable, and portable. In this course, you'll write declarative Jenkins pipelines that include conditional logic and multiple stages — a skill that distinguishes professional DevOps engineers from beginners.

This course sits at the automation layer of the DevOps stack. It builds on the Linux and systems foundations from DevOps Foundation (Linux & Systems) - Hands-On, and the Git skills introduced here are complemented by the container and Kubernetes workflows covered in Mastering Docker & Containers - Hands-On and Kubernetes Orchestration - Hands-On. Together, the courses form a complete, progressive DevOps engineering curriculum.

This course builds skills directly applicable to roles such as DevOps Engineer, CI/CD Engineer, Build and Release Engineer, Platform Engineer, and Software Developer. The ability to design and manage automated pipelines is a core competency in these positions across technology, finance, and enterprise environments.

Module 1 (Version Control with Git) covers cloning and forking repositories, branch creation and merging, remote management, reverting changes, and Cherry-pick.

Module 2 (Continuous Integration with Jenkins) covers Jenkins job configuration for package installation and database backups, parameterized and scheduled builds, Slave Node configuration, project security with RBAC, and a full deploy pipeline.

Module 3 (Advanced Pipelines & Automation) covers conditional pipelines, deployment jobs, chained builds, multistage pipelines, Ansible inventory creation, Ansible Playbook troubleshooting and creation, and copying data to app servers using Ansible.

Most CI/CD courses teach theory or walk you through demos. This course is structured entirely around hands-on practice — you attempt every lab before seeing the solution, then watch a video that deconstructs the expert approach step by step. The integration of Ansible in the final module also goes beyond what most Jenkins-focused courses cover, connecting pipeline automation directly to infrastructure configuration management.

To access the course materials, assignments and to earn a Certificate, you will need to purchase the Certificate experience when you enroll in a course. You can try a Free Trial instead, or apply for Financial Aid. The course may offer 'Full Course, No Certificate' instead. This option lets you see all course materials, submit required assessments, and get a final grade. This also means that you will not be able to purchase a Certificate experience.

When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile.

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