10 Jenkins X

This chapter covers

  • What is Jenkins X?
  • Installing Jenkins X
  • Importing projects into Jenkins X
  • Promoting a release to production in Jenkins X

This chapter was written with contributions from Viktor Farcic and Oscar Medina.

In this chapter, you will learn how to use Jenkins X to deploy our reference example application to Kubernetes. You will also learn how Prow, Jenkins X pipeline operator, and Tekton work together to build a CI/CD pipeline.

We recommend you read chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5 before reading this chapter.

10.1 What is Jenkins X?

To understand the intricacies and inner workings of Jenkins X, we need to understand Kubernetes. However, we do not need to understand Kubernetes to use Jenkins X. That is one of the main contributions ...

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