Learn how to use Jenkins X to automate your pipeline and achieve CI/CD.

DevOps for Developers

Jenkins X is a powerful tool for providing software developers continuous integration, automated testing, and continuous delivery, known as CI/CD, in Kubernetes.

It’s no secret that Kubernetes is extremely complex, and Jenkins X helps you by simplifying processes into concepts that can be adopted quickly and without spending months trying to figure out “the right way to do stuff.”

In this course, you’ll start by exploring the inner workings of Jenkins X and how to create a cluster using it. You’ll then learn how to combine Jenkins X with tools you’re already using. Throughout, you’ll see how this exciting new tool changes how you work with Kubernetes.

By the time you’re done, you will be confident managing CI/CD using Jenkins X in a Kubernetes cluster.

Jenkins X with Kubernetes

Promotion to production is a technical decision.

Promotion to production is a technical decision.

Who usually decides when to promote a release to production?

Who usually decides when to promote a release to production?

Can we add integration tests when promoting a release?

Can we add integration tests when promoting a release?

The `-—env` flag given to `jx promote` represents the environment that we want to promote.

The <code>-—env</code> flag given to <code>jx promote</code> represents the environment that we want to promote.

The `—version` flag represents the version of the application that we want to promote. 

The <code>—version</code> flag represents the version of the application that we want to promote.

To improve deployments to production, we can add a HorizontalPodAutoscaler that will scale the application depending on memory and CPU consumption or based on custom metrics.

To improve deployments to production, we can add a HorizontalPodAutoscaler that will scale the application depending on memory and CPU consumption or based on custom metrics.


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The next chapter will focus on how we can version the releases of applications using Jenkins X. Stay tuned!

Let's take a quiz and review some of the material we learned in this chapter. 


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