Learn CONCOURSE-CI with Real Code Examples
Updated Nov 27, 2025
Learning Path
Learn basic CI/CD principles
Understand Concourse resources, jobs, and tasks
Experiment with simple local pipelines
Explore containerized tasks and custom Docker images
Scale pipelines with multiple jobs and workers
Skill Improvement Plan
Week 1: Simple build and test job
Week 2: Add Dockerized tasks
Week 3: Introduce resources and triggers
Week 4: Multi-job pipelines with dependencies
Week 5: Enterprise pipelines with secrets management
Interview Questions
What is Concourse CI and what makes it unique?
Explain the difference between a job, task, and resource.
How does Concourse ensure reproducibility of pipelines?
What are worker nodes and what role do they play?
How do you manage secrets in Concourse CI?
Cheat Sheet
fly set-pipeline - set or update a pipeline
fly unpause-pipeline - enable a paused pipeline
fly pause-pipeline - pause a pipeline
fly execute - run a task manually
fly watch - monitor job execution
Books
Concourse CI: Continuous Integration and Deployment
Mastering Concourse Pipelines
Containerized CI/CD with Concourse
Concourse CI for DevOps Engineers
Pipeline-as-Code with Concourse
Tutorials
Getting Started with Concourse CI
Pipeline-as-Code Tutorial
Building Containerized Tasks
Resource Triggers in Concourse
Advanced Multi-Job Pipelines
Official Docs
https://concourse-ci.org/docs.html
Concourse GitHub repository
fly CLI documentation
Community Links
Concourse Slack
StackOverflow Concourse CI tag
GitHub Concourse repository
Concourse CI subreddit (r/concourseci)
Concourse community forum
Community Support
Concourse CI official documentation
Concourse GitHub repository
StackOverflow Concourse CI tag
Concourse Slack community
Concourse subreddit (r/concourseci)