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

Quickstart projects are skeleton projects that we can use for the basis of our own applications.

Quickstart projects are skeleton projects that we can use for the basis of our own applications.

It lets you run the process without any human intervention. 

What is the purpose of the `—-batch-mode` flag?

What is the purpose of the <code>—-batch-mode</code> flag?

Skaffold handles the workflow for building, pushing, and deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters, as well as for local development. 

Skaffold contains Helm definitions that will be used to deploy our application to Kubernetes.

We have a command to build the application.

Making changes in the file locally triggers the build. 

Pushing a change to the git repository triggers a webhook that starts the build. 

How do we trigger the build of the application in Jenkins X?

How do we trigger the build of the application in Jenkins X?

The filter flag lets us filter the output to the most recent build. 

The filter flag lets use text to filter the pipeline names.

What is the purpose of the `—-filter` flag?

What is the purpose of the <code>—-filter</code> flag?

What is the command to retrieve information regarding Jenkins X environments?

What is the command to retrieve information regarding Jenkins X environments?

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The next chapter will deal with importing existing projects into Jenkins X. 

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

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