Build and Release Engineer Trainer

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Trainer Name - Rajesh kumar

Email - rajesh@scmgalaxy.com

Career Summary

Total, Over 10 and half years of extensive experience in the SCM domain having depth knowledge of Configuration Management, Build and Installer, Release Management and Application Management.

Rajesh is a corporate trainer with over 10 years of rich development and training experience in the IT industry. He has delivered 10+ corporate trainings in various SCM, Build and Release,DevOps technologies to multiple global corporations, including IBM, Accenture, Ness, MindTree and Adobe name a few.

In addition to training, he has been consulting on niche product development across the SCM, Build and Release including Continuous integration/Delivery & Tools (AnthillPro, Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity), Version Control Tools (Git, Perforce, MKS, Subversion and VSS), SCM Scripting and Tools (Ant, Make, Maven, Shell Scripting and Perl) along with Cobertura, Coverity, SonarQube, Chef  and Puppet etc. In addition he is also an expert in web technologies viz. Joomla, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, HTML etc.

In the past, he has worked in organizations like Adobe System, IBM, Accenture, Ness Technology, Accenture and Mindtree. Rajesh has a Masters Degree in Computer Science & Technology.

Skills Set

	Area of Expertise
Version Control	Git, Perforce, Github, GitLab, Stash, SVN and Team Foundation Server
Continous Integration	Jenkins, AnthillPro, BuildForge, uBuild, uDeploy, Bamboo and TeamCity
Installer & Packaging	InstallAnywhere, InstallShield, Wise Installer/ Studio and Linux RPM
Configuration Mgmt	Chef and Puppet
Build Tools	Maven, Gradle,  Ant, Make and MSBuild
Scripting	Perl, Shell Scripting, JavaScript(Basic) and Python(Basic)
App Servers	HTTP, Tomcat, WAMP, XAMP, Jboss, IIS 6.0
Quality & Security	SonarQube, FindBugs, AppScan, Coverity, Clover, Cobertura and JaCoCo
Virtualization	VMware WorkStation, Oracle Virtualbox and VSphere
Others	Joomla, Nexus, Artifactory, Elgg, BugZilla, JIRA, PhotoShop and Wiki
OS	RHEL, Windows, Linux, Ubantu, Solaris and Mac OS X
Languages	Perl, HTML, Core Java, PHP, Microsoft.NET, CSS
Databases	MySQL 5, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL

Build and Release Engineer Training

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Build and Release Engineer Training
scmGalaxy has started a online build and release engineer training courses for the software engineer students and professional who wants to build their career in Build and Release world. Student can enroll for this course from any where in world and the courses will be delivered to participants via online (Go2meeting, Webex and teamviewer)

Agenda of the training as below;

• What is Software Configuration Management
• What is Build and Release Engineering
• Introduction of Version Control Management?
• Basic usage of Subversion
• Basic usage of git
• Introduction of Build Management?
• How to write ant script?
• How to write Maven script?
• How to write MSBuild Script?
• Introduction of Release Management?
• Benefit of Continuous Integration?
• Different Continuous Integration Tools?
• Focus on Jenkins
• Installation and Setup of Jenkinks
• Configure a Job to Build the Project using SVN /GIT and ANT/Maven
• Using Build Script (Ant, Maven and MSBuild) with Jenkins
• Authentication and Authorization in Jenkins
• Lab and Assignment
• Nodes Setup in Jenkins
• Labels, Tags and Notification using Jenkins
• Empowered with Plugins in Jenkins
• 20 Popular Plugins and Their Usage
• Integrating Jenkins with Junit for automated testing
• Integrating Jenkins with HP-QC for automated testing
• Integrating Jenkins with Cobertura for test Coverage
• Integrating Jenkins with Sonar for static code analysis
• Release and Deployments using Jenkins and Nexus
• Advance Jenkins
• Jenkins Scripting
• Jenkins Command line
• Reporting and Dashboard using Jenkins
• Lab and Assignment

Email - info@scmgalaxy.com
Training - http://bit.ly/scmgalaxy-training
Calender - http://bit.ly/scmgalaxy-calender

About us
scmGalaxy is a community initiatives based on Software configuration management that helps community members to optimize their software development process, Software Development Life Cycle optimization, Agile Methodologies and improve productivity across all aspects of Java development, including Build Scripts, Testing, Issue Tracking, Continuous Integration, Code Quality and more. scmGalaxy group that helps organizations optimize their software development process. We provide consulting, training and mentoring services in Agile Development Practices such as Version Management, Continuous Integration, Build Management, Test-Driven Development, Acceptance-Test Driven Development, Build Automation, Code  Quality Practices and Automated Testing.

We provide job oriented training in the area of Configuration management, Build and Release Engineering. Candidates with engineering or software background and looking to either start or change their career to Build and Release Engineering, would benefit most from this training. Instructor-led training course offered in India, USA, Europe, Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Hydrabad. Instructor is an expert in Software configuration management, Build and release engineering with more than 15 years industry experience in india.The Goal of the course make the training attendants equip with all the concepts of build and release engineering.
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This course is provided on-site, and can be tailored to your particular requirements. If you would like our trainings delivered at your premises, or for any additional information please contact us. Please email us at info @ scmgalaxy dot com

Build and Release Training

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Training Duration – 16 Hours 
Mode – Online based
Email – info@scmgalaxy.com

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Training - http://bit.ly/scmgalaxy-training
Calender - http://bit.ly/scmgalaxy-calender 

Lab Setup Details - Prerequisites

Operating Systems - Windows 7 or Linux(RHEL 7.X or Ubantu)

JDK 1.7 or Higher

SCM Tool Clients Installed (SVN, GIT, Perforce)

Servlet container like GlassFish and Tomcat (If one wants to host Jenkins outside) – Optional

[If trainee is having any specific learning agenda to be addressed in this training apart from the table of Content as below; please email me @ info@scmgalaxy.com]

Table of Content

Continuous Integration with Jenkins

• What is Software Configuration Management
• What is Build and Release Engineering
• Introduction of Version Control Management?
• Basic usage of Subversion
• Basic usage of git
• Introduction of Build Management?
• How to write ant script?
• How to write Maven script?
• How to write MSBuild Script?
• Introduction of Release Management?
• Benefit of Continuous Integration?
• Different Continuous Integration Tools?
• Focus on Jenkins
• Installation and Setup of Jenkinks
• Configure a Job to Build the Project using SVN /GIT and ANT/Maven
• Using Build Script (Ant, Maven and MSBuild) with Jenkins
• Authentication and Authorization in Jenkins
• Lab and Assignment
• Nodes Setup in Jenkins
• Labels, Tags and Notification using Jenkins
• Empowered with Plugins in Jenkins
• 20 Popular Plugins and Their Usage
• Integrating Jenkins with Junit for automated testing
• Integrating Jenkins with HP-QC for automated testing
• Integrating Jenkins with Cobertura for test Coverage
• Integrating Jenkins with Sonar for static code analysis
• Release and Deployments using Jenkins and Nexus
• Advance Jenkins
• Jenkins Scripting
• Jenkins Command line
• Reporting and Dashboard using Jenkins
• Lab and Assignment

Interview Questions for Build & Release Engineer

If you are preparing for an interview as Build & Release engineer position, you are reading the right blog. I received an email from a reader yesterday about it, therefore I decided to write down some questions.

During my 6 years of B&R experience, I have learnt that tools used for CM, Build management and scripting vary a lot in different corporations. You might be using InstallShield for deployment in one company and a simple MSBuild script in another. As a build & Release engineer you must master at least one scripting language- Perl, MSBuild or Shell. That is really helpful even if you are not currently working on any of these.

Regarding interview questions, I can think of following-

• How do your handle upgrade scenario in InstallShield wizard? How can you prevent a product being downgraded while installation.
• Can you write a custom action in VB/C# and integrate it with Installshield wizard?
• How do you implement Continuous Integration using CruiseControl?
• What are the things you change on your target system while deploying?
• How can we migrate from one CM tool to another, say SVN to TFS?
• Which one is a better Build Management tool- CruiseControl or Hudson? Why?

Please feel free to drop me a mail regarding any of these questions. Good Luck.

Standard build process using Make & Ant- Part 1

(Mostly, I interact with makefiles but I have always been interested in studying Make & Ant together. Here is the first post in the series)

A simple build can be started from a command line simply by executing 2 statements- one for compiling and another one for linking. But as the software grows and consist of many modules, dependencies get created and a sequence of commands are required to be executed. Additionally, we needed to add pre and post actions around the calls to the compilers such as a check-out from version control or copying of deployable objects to a test location.

Make & Ant make it happen in a standardized way. Ant does the same thing for Java environment what make does for C++. Ant is a platform-independent (like Java) scripting tool that lets you construct your build scripts using many built-in commends like delete, jar, get, mkdir, exec and copydir.

Another basic difference between Ant and Make is that Ant uses XML (build.xml) to describe the build process and its dependencies, whereas Make has its Makefile format.

Best approach to prepare install patch for an enterprise application

I will start with something I have worked on, then people can share their approaches. I worked in InstallShield PackageForWeb (A light weight version of InstallShield) to install patch of an enterprise application over a cluster of windows machines. I believe using an InstallShield product for installing is much easier and controllable then any other language like C#. Regarding the complex install script, I don't think we need to play with the script. Latest InstallShield provides pretty much user-friendly configurable mechanism which automatically generates the install script.

If your enterprise is too complex to be handled by general InstallShield settings and you feel the need to modify the install script but worried to mess it up. You can try this- Launch a separate script written in any Windows Automation Languages (AutoIT or Auto Hotkey) during installation and let that script handle the rest. This approach is pretty useful because these windows automation scripting languages can do anything with windows we can think of, I mean anything. I have successfully tried this approach for over 2 years. Suggestions are welcome .

Why working for Cisco is so great?

Sometime I wander why am I so satisfied with my job of build and release engineer, it is quite an offbeat career. I think it has very much to do with the fact that I am working on a Cisco project. Everything around me is Cisco, Cisco's network, Cisco's processes, Cisco's people and Cisco's world class working environment. Here I am listing down some of the points in this reference.

VPN is wonderful- It feels so satisfying reading your mails on your office laptop using VPN even if you are on vacations siting 2500 KM from office. It gives me the feeling that I am not missing any update.
Responsible reporting- Weekly Update meetings with Cisco managers give feeling of responsibility. Apart from cultivating professional attitude, it feels good while interacting with so important and influential people around the globe.
Cisco's resources- Knowledge-rich resources enables you to work with more confidence. Ranging from online technical resources to industry updates mailer, everything is so perfect that it feels working in a truly world class organizations.
Wonderful people- Fortunately I have some of the best skilled engineers and most professional managers to work with. Learning from an old-timer expert and reporting to such great managers equips me with professional aptitude.
World class infrastructure of Infosys- It adds moon to the night when I hit the beautiful pool side gym in the evening after hard day's work. I feel proud walking in the rain sometimes on wide beautiful roads laid in the green campus of Infosys.

All these things coupled with other numerous untold facts add enthusiasm to life and my work here in Infosys for Cisco.