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

Starting a new Jenkins X project is easy. The first time we create one, it looks and feels like magic. All we have to do is answer a few questions, and a few moments later we have:
* *A full-blown continuous delivery pipeline,*
* *GitHub webhook that triggers the pipeline,*
* *A mechanism to promote a release to different environments,*
* *A way to preview pull requests,*
* *And quite a few other things.*


However, this *"magic"* might be overwhelming if we accept it without understanding what's going on behind the scenes. Our goal is to leverage the power we're given. We need to get a grip on the tools involved in the process, and we need to understand the intricacies of the flow that will ultimately lead to a fast, reliable, and (mostly) hands-free approach to delivering our applications.
# Overview of the chapter 
We’ll create a new cluster with Jenkins X (unless you already have one) and create a quickstart project. We’ll use it as an enabler that will allow us to explore some of the essential components provided by Jenkins X. That will give us the base knowledge we’ll need later when we examine how to set up projects that will perform exactly what we need. We will not go into details of the process and the tools involved just yet. For now, the objective is to get a high-level overview and an overall understanding of how Jenkins X works. More detailed descriptions will follow.


This lesson gives an overview of the things that we will be learning in this chapter. 

Getting Started with Quickstart Projects