13. CI / CD Review, Practice

Key Skills and Concepts from CI / CD Lesson

You’ve learned a lot in this lesson! Here are some of the key skills and topics we covered in the course so far:

• Set up IAM user, role, group & policy
• Launched EC2 instance
• Installed Jenkins
• Enabled BlueOcean
• Showed the components of CI/CD
• Described a pipeline

Practice Exercise 1

** Working through these practice exercises will set you up for success in your project at the end of the course!**

As a practice exercise, please do the following:

• Set up IAM user, role, group and policy
• Now check your work by reviewing your policy JSON. It should look like the following:

Practice Exercise 2

Here is another practice exercise. Please do the following:

• Launch a t2.micro EC2 instance
• Install Jenkins
• Recall these are the steps to install Jenkins:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install -y default-jdk
wget -q -O - https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian/jenkins.io.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo deb https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable binary/ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y jenkins

• Take a screenshot of the Homepage after logging into Jenkins. Check your work by comparing your screenshot to the following. Include the URL bar in your screenshot.

Practice Exercise 3

For the last practice exercise for this lesson, please do the following:

• Install the Blue Ocean Plugin.
• To check your work, compare the screen you see inside of Blue Ocean with the following. Make sure you include the URL bar in your comparison also.