CloudBees CI integrated Success Points catalog

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Overview of Success Points offerings

The table below summarizes the typical Success Point cost by engagement type for each topic.

Category Topic Introduction Workshop Consultation

Design and Development

Pipeline Development

2

Design and Development

Pipeline Management and Standardization Review

2

Design and Development

Pipeline Review

1

4

16

Design and Development

Shared Library Development

1

Health Checks and Optimization

Capability Assessment

2

Health Checks and Optimization

Health Check

1

4

16

Health Checks and Optimization

Performance and Stress Testing

4

Infrastructure Maintenance

Infrastructure Cost Savings

2

Infrastructure Maintenance

Monitoring and Dashboards

2

Infrastructure Maintenance

New Features

1

Infrastructure Maintenance

Upgrade Assistance

1

2

8

Infrastructure Setup

Agent Management

1

2

4

Infrastructure Setup

Disaster Recovery

1

Infrastructure Setup

High Availability (HA) and Horizontal Scaling (HS)

1

Infrastructure Setup

Infrastructure Q&A

1

Infrastructure Setup

Installation

1

4

16

Setup and Configuration

Access Permission Design

1

8

Setup and Configuration

Architecture & Design for Agents

1

2

Setup and Configuration

Architecture & Design for Controllers

1

2

Setup and Configuration

Certificate Management

4

Setup and Configuration

Configuration as Code

1

4

Setup and Configuration

External Credential Provider

1

Setup and Configuration

Plugin Configuration

2

Setup and Configuration

SSO Configuration

1

General consulting

Topic Duration Success Points

Q&A Session

1.5 hours

1

One Day of Consulting

6 hours

4

One Week of Consulting

40 hours

20

One Month of Consulting

160 hours

70

One Year of Consulting (AAP Service)

1300 hours

650

Training

Each class is available as a Dedicated Class or One Participant option.

Course Format Success Points (Dedicated Class) Success Points (One Participant)

CloudBees CI Level 1: Administration

6 hours

15

5

CloudBees CI Level 1: Basics

6 hours

15

5

CloudBees CI Level 2: Pipeline Implementation

6 hours

15

5

Detailed descriptions of Success Points offerings

Infrastructure Setup

Infrastructure Q&A

Category: Infrastructure Setup
Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Participants engage in a comprehensive Q&A session on integrating and optimizing CloudBees CI infrastructure. Covers best practices, common troubleshooting, and productivity/efficiency tips. Follow-up recommendations may require support cases and additional Success Points.

Installation Introduction

Category: Infrastructure Setup
Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Guided overview of initial setup and configuration of CloudBees CI systems: prerequisites, software requirements, pitfalls to avoid, and practical implementation tips.

Agent Management Introduction

Category: Infrastructure Setup
Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Focus on configuring and optimizing agents for build, test, and deployment automation. Includes scaling, securing agent communication, and troubleshooting.

High Availability (HA) and Horizontal Scaling (HS) Introduction

Category: Infrastructure Setup
Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Enhance resilience and scalability for CloudBees CI: HA/HS architecture, failover concepts, rolling updates, and approaches to manage large-scale CloudBees CI operations.

Installation Workshop

Category: Infrastructure Setup
Format: Workshop
Duration: 6 hours
Cost: 4 Success Points

Hands-on walkthrough of installation from software setup through advanced configuration: prerequisites, networking, security settings, and troubleshooting techniques.

Agent Management Workshop

Category: Infrastructure Setup
Format: Workshop
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 2 Success Points

Deploy agents across environments, manage workload distribution, secure communications, troubleshoot, and ensure high availability and scalability.

Installation Consultation

Category: Infrastructure Setup
Format: Consultation
Duration: 24 hours
Cost: 16 Success Points

Exhaustive multi-day planning and execution support for CloudBees CI installation. Includes customized installation plan, advanced configuration strategies (HA, DR, enterprise integrations), and post-installation verification with a detailed report.

Agent Management Consultation

Category: Infrastructure Setup
Format: Consultation
Duration: 6 hours
Cost: 4 Success Points

In-depth assessment of agent infrastructure efficiency, distribution, workload management, security, and scalability. Concludes with a findings-and-recommendations report.

Disaster Recovery Introduction

Category: Infrastructure Setup
Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Foundations of DR planning for CloudBees CI: risk identification, core DR plan components, data backup best practices, redundancies, and rapid recovery methods.

Infrastructure Maintenance

Upgrade Assistance Introduction

Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Overview of upgrade planning: readiness assessment, compatibility checks, downtime management, data integrity, and common troubleshooting.

Upgrade Assistance Workshop

Format: Workshop
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 2 Success Points

Interactive session from planning to execution of upgrades, with hands-on exercises simulating real-world scenarios to minimize downtime and ensure stability.

Upgrade Assistance Consultation

Format: Consultation
Duration: 12 hours
Cost: 8 Success Points

Thorough multi-day evaluation of upgrade readiness: environment analysis, version compatibility, risk identification, best practices, downtime strategy, and data protection; includes tailored recommendations.

Infrastructure Cost Savings Workshop

Format: Workshop
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 2 Success Points

Strategies to reduce technology spend while maintaining performance and reliability: resource utilization, efficient scaling, automation, cost-benefit analysis, and redundancy reduction.

Monitoring and Dashboards Workshop

Format: Workshop
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 2 Success Points

Set up and customize monitoring and dashboards to track metrics, logs, and events. Best practices for proactive management and KPI visualization.

New Features Introduction

Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Overview of the latest CloudBees CI features and updates, demonstrations and use cases, and guidance on integrating enhancements into existing systems.

Health Checks and Optimization

Health Check Introduction

Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Essentials of performing health checks: diagnostics, performance monitoring, and proactive maintenance strategies.

Health Check Workshop

Format: Workshop
Duration: 6 hours
Cost: 4 Success Points

Comprehensive health checks: diagnostics, performance evaluations, troubleshooting, and techniques to ensure availability and reliability.

Health Check Consultation

Format: Consultation
Duration: 24 hours
Cost: 16 Success Points

Extensive multi-day evaluation of performance, stability, scalability, workflow monitoring, and resilience testing. Delivers a comprehensive report with risks, inefficiencies, and recommended improvements.

Performance and Stress Testing Workshop

Format: Workshop
Duration: 6 hours
Cost: 4 Success Points

Methodologies to simulate high-load scenarios, identify bottlenecks, set up test environments, create test cases, and interpret results for optimization.

Capability Assessment

Format: Introduction
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: 2 Success Points

Quick expert review of current CloudBees CI capabilities, with strengths, gaps, and recommendations to boost performance and scalability.

Setup and Configuration

Access Permission Design Introduction

Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Principles of access control: roles, permissions, and policies aligned to security and compliance standards. Prevent unauthorized access and mitigate risk.

Access Permission Design Consultation

Format: Consultation
Duration: 12 hours
Cost: 8 Success Points

Comprehensive review of RBAC, permission schemes, role definitions, and policy implementations to identify vulnerabilities and inefficiencies. Delivers a findings-and-actions report.

Architecture & Design for Controllers Introduction

Format: Introduction
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Improve security and efficiency using dedicated namespaces and node pools for controller pods to reduce contention and streamline infrastructure.

Architecture & Design for Controllers Workshop

Format: Workshop
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 2 Success Points

Hands-on session to design and implement controller isolation with dedicated namespaces and node pools.

Architecture & Design for Agents Introduction

Format: Introduction
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Optimize performance and strengthen security with dedicated namespaces and node pools for agent pods.

Architecture & Design for Agents Workshop

Format: Workshop
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 2 Success Points

Hands-on planning and rollout of agent isolation and sizing strategies across your CloudBees CI infrastructure.

Certificate Management Consultation

Format: Consultation
Duration: 7 hours
Cost: 4 Success Points

Use the CloudBees CI Sidecar Injector to enable secure access to internal HTTPS services with custom CAs or self-signed certificates.

SSO Configuration Introduction

Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Concepts and benefits of SSO: simplified user management, improved security practices, and reduced password fatigue. Includes setup, integration, and troubleshooting.

Plugin Configuration Introduction

Format: Introduction
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 2 Success Points

Select, install, and configure plugins: plugin architecture, seamless integration, managing updates, compatibility, and practical demonstrations.

External Credential Provider Introduction

Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Integrate external credential providers to enhance security and centralized credential management; setup, configuration, and compliance best practices.

Configuration as Code Introduction

Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Fundamentals and best practices for writing, testing, and maintaining configuration as code to increase consistency, security, and auditability.

Configuration as Code Workshop

Format: Workshop
Duration: 6 hours
Cost: 4 Success Points

Deep dive with hands-on exercises for structuring configuration files, securing configurations, version control integration, and safe rollouts.

Design and Development

Pipeline Review Introduction

Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Review CloudBees CI Pipelines to find bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and improvements in configuration, automation, error handling, and security within stages.

Pipeline Review Workshop

Format: Workshop
Duration: 6 hours
Cost: 4 Success Points

Advanced techniques to assess and improve automation, reliability, speed, and security; streamline builds, integrate quality checks, and apply analytics for continuous improvement.

Pipeline Review Consultation

Format: Consultation
Duration: 24 hours
Cost: 16 Success Points

Exhaustive, multi-day analysis of end-to-end CloudBees CI Pipeline—automation levels, integrations, security, performance metrics, and best-practice alignment. Concludes with a detailed report of findings and optimizations.

Pipeline Management and Standardization Review Workshop

Format: Workshop
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 2 Success Points

Optimize Pipeline management practices and standardize configurations across teams; reduce variability, enforce best practices, and improve reliability.

Pipeline Development Workshop

Format: Workshop
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 2 Success Points

Design and implement CloudBees CI Pipelines from commit to artifact: tool integration, workflow management, optimization strategies, and security/compliance checks.

Shared Library Development Introduction

Format: Introduction
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Design, build, and manage reusable shared libraries: structure, testing, deployment, versioning, and maintenance practices.

General Consulting

Q&A Session

Format: General Consulting
Duration: 1.5 hour
Cost: 1 Success Point

Expert-led session to answer organization-specific CloudBees CI questions, discuss challenges, and explore best practices.

One Day of Consulting General Consulting

Format: General Consulting
Duration: 6 hours
Cost: 4 Success Points

Personalized guidance to analyze setup, identify improvements, and implement best practices for efficient, scalable, and secure operations.

One Week of Consulting General Consulting

Format: General Consulting
Duration: 40 hours
Cost: 20 Success Points

Comprehensive assistance: system analysis, strategic recommendations, and hands-on optimization for efficiency, scalability, and performance.

One Month of Consulting General Consulting

Format: General Consulting
Duration: 160 hours
Cost: 70 Success Points

Extended engagement with deep analysis and implementation support tailored to your organization’s needs.

One Year of Consulting General Consulting

Format: General Consulting
Duration: 1300 hours
Cost: 650 Success Points

Long-term strategic partnership for ongoing expert assistance, optimization, and proactive enhancements across your CloudBees CI environments.

Training classes

CloudBees CI Level 1: Basics

CloudBees CI Level 1: Basics (Dedicated Class)

Format: Training
Duration: 6 hours (2 days instructor-led)
Cost: 15 Success Points

This introductory course builds on the knowledge learned in the CloudBees CI: Essentials course. It combines an informational and instructional curriculum with entry-level, hands-on lab exercises. Students will gain the experience of a basic user of CloudBees CI, as well as practical exposure to core features.

What you will learn:

  • Distinguish between DevOps concepts and understand their relationship to CloudBees CI.

  • Navigate the operations center, controllers, and information on a controller.

  • Examine Jenkinsfiles and describe job processes defined in them.

  • Run Pipelines in CloudBees CI and analyze logs after completion.

  • Explain additional job runs that may take place after a successful CloudBees CI Pipeline run.

Audience: Anyone who needs introductory usage and hands-on experience with CloudBees CI, including end users in managerial and implementation roles.

Prerequisites: Complete the CloudBees CI: Essentials course and have general familiarity with the software development life cycle.

CloudBees CI Level 1: Basics (One Participant)

Format: Training
Duration: 6 hours (self-paced: ~4 hours)
Cost: 5 Success Points

Same content as the dedicated class but delivered for individual participants in a self-paced format.

CloudBees CI Level 1: Administration (Dedicated Class)

Format: Training
Duration: 6 hours (2 days instructor-led)
Cost: 15 Success Points

After completing this course, students will gain hands-on guided experience with administrative tasks. More detailed implementation, configuration, and best practices for specific administrative tasks are covered in Level 2 courses.

What you will learn:

  • Set up your cluster understanding the foundations of a CloudBees CI platform.

  • Manage and secure plugins using the CloudBees Assurance Program (CAP) and Beekeeper Upgrade Assistant.

  • Configure access control with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and the Folders Plus plugin.

  • Manage credentials for use inside Pipelines or to configure plugins.

  • Execute Pipelines using different types of agents.

  • Standardize Pipeline creation using Pipeline Templates, Template Catalogs, and Shared Libraries.

  • Improve Pipeline work with reporting and collaboration tools.

Audience: Anyone who needs introductory, hands-on usage knowledge and experience for CloudBees CI administrative tasks. Also, a prerequisite for CloudBees CI Level 2 admin courses.

Prerequisites: Complete CloudBees CI Level 1: Basics course and its prerequisites. Basic understanding of command line usage, scripting, and security is recommended.

CloudBees CI Level 1: Administration (One Participant)

Format: Training
Duration: 6 hours (self-paced: ~5 hours)
Cost: 5 Success Points

Same content as the dedicated class but delivered for individual participants in a self-paced format.

CloudBees CI Level 2: Pipeline Implementation (Dedicated Class)

Format: Training
Duration: 6 hours (2 days instructor-led)
Cost: 15 Success Points

Building on topics covered in CloudBees CI: Essentials, Level 1: Basics, and Level 1: Admin, this course begins with creating a simple Declarative Pipeline and building a Multibranch Pipeline job. Learners will progressively add features and functionality to control Pipeline flow of execution.

What you will learn:

  • Implement stages and steps for a simple Declarative Pipeline.

  • Create and configure Multibranch Pipeline jobs.

  • Implement multienvironment Declarative Pipelines and parallelization.

  • Control Pipeline flow with directives and options.

  • Troubleshoot common Pipeline errors.

  • Call custom steps from shared libraries.

  • Build Pipelines with standardized Pipeline Templates in Pipeline Template Catalogs.

Audience: End users who oversee the entire DevOps process and need hands-on implementation knowledge for CloudBees CI Pipelines. Individuals responsible for implementing Pipelines for development teams.

Prerequisites: Complete CloudBees CI: Essentials, Level 1: Basics, and Level 1: Admin courses. Basic admin-level user experience and practical experience with reviewing and running Pipelines in CloudBees CI.

CloudBees CI Level 2: Pipeline Implementation (One Participant)

Format: Training
Duration: 6 hours (self-paced: ~8 hours)
Cost: 5 Success Points

Same content as the dedicated class but delivered for individual participants in a self-paced format.