Design software that solves someone’s “job to be done“, build it, package it, ship it, collect feedback, learn, and repeat. That’s the dream, right? For many, shipping software is not fun. It’s downright awful. Too many tickets, too many handoffs, and too many hours waiting. Continuous integration and delivery offer some relief, as you keep producing tested, production-ready artifacts. Survey data shows that we’re not all adopting this paradigm as fast as we should. I figured I’d do my part by preparing and delivering a new video training course about Concourse.
I’ve been playing a lot with Concourse recently, and published a 3-part blog series on using it to push .NET Core apps to Kubernetes. It’s an easy-to-use CI system with declarative pipelines and stateless servers. Concourse runs jobs on Windows or Linux, and works with any programming language you use.
My new hands-on Pluralsight course is ~90 minutes long, and gives you everything you need to get comfortable with the platform. It’s made up of three modules. The first module looks at key concepts, the Concourse architecture, and user roles, and we set up our local environment for development.
The second module digs deep into the primitives of Concourse: tasks, jobs and resources. I explain how to configure each, and then we go hands on with each. There are aspects that took me a while to understand, so I worked hard to explain these well!
The third and final module looks at pipeline lifecycle management and building manageable pipelines. We explore troubleshooting and more.
Believe it or not, this is my 20th course with Pluralsight. Over these past 8 years, I’ve switched job roles many times, but I’ve always enjoyed learning new things and sharing that information with others. Pluralsight makes that possible for me. I hope you enjoy this new course, and most importantly, start doing CI/CD for more of your workloads!
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