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

That's it. Now you know the purpose of the environments and how they fit into GitOps principles. We're yet to explore environments with the `Manual` promotion. As you'll see soon, the only significant difference between the `Auto` and `Manual` promotions is in actors.

By now, you should be familiar with what's coming next.
# How to free up the resources?
If you’re planning to move on to the next lesson right away, there are no cleanup actions to do. Just continue on to the next chapter.

However, if you created a cluster only for the purpose of the exercises we executed, please destroy it. We'll start the next, and each other chapter from scratch as a way to save you from running your cluster longer than necessary and pay more than needed to your hosting vendor. If you created the cluster or installed Jenkins X using one of the Gists from the beginning of this chapter, you'll find the instructions on how to destroy the cluster or uninstall everything at the bottom.

If you did choose to destroy the cluster or to uninstall Jenkins X, please remove the repositories we created as well as the local files. You can use the commands that follow for that.

> ⚠️ Please replace `[...]` with your GitHub user before executing the commands that follow.



This lesson concludes the discussion regarding applying GitOps principles and gives instructions to free up the used resources. 

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