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Course Outline

Lightweight CI Sovereignty

  • How cloud CI/CD services lead to vendor lock-in and expose secrets.
  • Woodpecker CI design goals: simplicity, Docker-native compatibility, and forge-agnosticism.
  • Comparisons with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Drone, and Jenkins.

Server and Agent Deployment

  • Docker Compose stack: server, agents, and database configuration.
  • Environment variables and Forge OAuth registration.
  • Agent labels, capacity planning, and resource limits.

Pipeline Authoring

  • woodpecker.yml syntax: steps, services, and conditions.
  • Selecting Docker images and mounting workspaces.
  • Parallel execution and dependency chains.

Forge Integration

  • Webhook configuration for Gitea and Forgejo.
  • Branch filtering, PR triggers, and tag events.
  • Commit status reporting and badge generation.

Secrets and Security

  • Repository, organization, and global secret scopes.
  • Credential injection for deployment stages.
  • Network isolation and trusted vs untrusted agents.

Matrix Builds and Caching

  • Multi-language and multi-version test matrices.
  • Cache plugin for dependency directories.
  • Artifact upload to S3-compatible storage.

Operations

  • Server logs, agent telemetry, and queue inspection.
  • Horizontal scaling of agents with Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
  • Backup and restoration of 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.

Audience

  • DevOps teams seeking lightweight self-hosted CI for Gitea/Forgejo.
  • Organizations looking to avoid GitHub Actions or GitLab CI SaaS.
  • Small to medium-sized teams desiring pipeline sovereignty without unnecessary bloat.
 14 Hours

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