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

I showed a very opinionated way to do continuous delivery and continuous deployment using Jenkins X in a Kubernetes cluster. Unlike **The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit: Continuous Deployment To Kubernetes**, the opinions didn't come from me, but rather the platform itself. Unlike the traditional Jenkins, Jenkins X dictates how you should do continuous delivery or continuous deployment. It can be tweaked, but you do need to comply with some, if not all, of its processes. GitOps, for example, is a must. Without it, you'd lose too many of the great features it offers.
# Staying up to date
At the time of this writing (October 2019), Jenkins X is still in its early phases, and we can expect that great new features are coming. I'll do my best to keep this course up-to-date. 

If you're here, you now have an excellent foundation with Jenkins X. Now it's up to you to implement it in your organization and put it to the only real test by running it in production. That is, if I managed to convince you that Jenkins X is the best way to implement continuous delivery inside your Kubernetes clusters.
# Feedback
That being said, I'd love to hear about your experience. 

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- Are you using Jenkins X? 
- Did you create a custom build pack? 
- How did you onboard teams? 

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Any information about the way you use it and your experience with Jenkins X will help us improve the project. Please send me what you created. I want to see your processes and your pipelines. Even more, I'd love to work with you to publish them in a blog or as an appendix to this book. If you think you did something interesting, and I'm sure you did, please contact me on the [DevOps20](http://slack.devops20toolkit.com/) Slack and show me what you created.

> **You learned from others, now it's time for others to learn from you. I'm done explaining what I did, now it's your turn to share what you made.**

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