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OpenShift's Jenkins integration is good. Though its even cooler to use Jenkins X on OpenShift as you get automated CI/CD pipelines + Environments, Preview Environments on Pull Requ…

even from an OSS goals perspective I'm looking forward to seeing better alignment, reuse and interoperability between Jenkins, Jenkins X & things like CodeShip & Knative Build

BTW we use the kubernetes credentials provider plugin in Jenkins X which exposes Kubernetes Secrets as Jenkins Credentials; then the `credentials` step in the `Jenkinsfile` encrypt…

if you are happy to use Kubernetes then if you switch to Jenkins X you never need to configure a Jenkins server or create a groovy based DSL again: https://jenkins-x.io/

invoke `make` from inside your `Jenkinfile`? :)

Jenkins X can help compete effectively with other tools since it automates your entire CI/CD; from creating the Pipelines, setting up your Environments, creating Preview Environmen…

one solution to the problem, if you are building apps for kubernetes is to use Jenkins X which automates all your CI/CD pipelines: https://jenkins-x.io/

yeah, I see 'plugins' being around for a while but docker steps becoming the more cloud native long term alternative; being more reusable stand alone & not requiring changing a Jen…

I think as part of the new Jenkins architecture we should be able to make it much easier to stop at a point in a pipeline & open a terminal/REPL to test out steps. Also I'm hoping …

if you can't use kubernetes or containers then I guess Ansible is a fallback?

OpenShift is a fork of the Kubernetes code base: https://github.com/openshift/origin I.e. it’s not using the upstream distribution of Kubernetes like the public cloud vendors or He…

OpenShift is Red Hat's supported fork & distribution of Kubernetes - so its another platform we can install and use Jenkins X on. OpenShift also includes some Jenkins support; e.g.…

we're using helm for installing/upgrading apps; it takes care of reverting bad versions/releases etc

Jenkins X runs in containers on kubernetes and all the builds are done in containers. You can use whatever pod template (collection of docker images) in your CI/CD pipeline: http:/…

Agreed! Jenkins X uses Skaffold to do the docker image building so can be configured to use kaniko or Google Container Builder etc https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold

Each environment is in a separate namespaces. You can add/edit/delete the Environments to use whatever namespaces you wish to use. Promotion is either automatic or manual. By defau…

Thanks! You are free to use any kubernetes cluster and install Jenkins X there: http://jenkins-x.io/getting-started/install-on-cluster/ The default is to use separate namespaces in…

That’s a great point. This blog tries to compare Jenkins X versus Jenkins 2.0: https://dzone.com/articles/jenkins-x-the-good-bad-and-ugly It’s mostly about automation of install, c…

Thanks for your feedback. We are trying to make things simpler with Jenkins X by using best of breed tools (git providers, issue trackers, cloud services, service meshes, security …

It should do - in theory - it needs testing though ;). I notice that kops recently added support for Digital Ocean https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/blob/master/docs/tutorial... S…

Btw I’m the author of the above blog post & committer on Jenkins X. So our focus is currently anyone looking to automate CI/CD on kubernetes, the cloud or any modern platform like …

BTW we're hoping to make it easier to 'service link' your Preview Environments to other environments. https://github.com/jenkins-x/jx/issues/573 e.g. so you could deploy just your …

Jenkins X creates a Preview Environment per Pull Request yeah; which can be as much or as little as you want it to be. e.g. it could be just 1 pod only or could be a suit of relate…

whoops, great catch thanks. Hoping we can figure out a fix very soon...

The things you gain from switching to Jenkins X: * automated CI/CD for your kubernetes based applications using Helm Charts & GitOps to manage promotions (manual or automated) * a …