Jenkins is loved by many as the open source automation server, that provides different plugins to support building, deploying, and automating any project. However, Jenkins is not a cloud-native tool, i.e., it lacks the OOTB (Out-Of-The-Box) capabilities to survive an outage, and scale seamlessly, among many other flaws. In order to make Jenkins cloud native, the team has come up with a brand new Jenkins X platform, an open source CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications, which would be deployed on Kubernetes.
Jenkins X is currently a sub-project within the Jenkins Foundation. It fully focuses on Kubernetes, CI/CD and Cloud Native use cases for providing great developer productivity. With the Kubernetes plugin, one does not have to worry about provisioning VMs or physical servers for slaves.
The target audience for Jenkins X include both the existing as well as new Jenkins users. It is specifically designed for those who are,
Some other notable features of Jenkins X are :
Jenkins X also defines a command line tool, jx. This tool encapsulates tasks as high-level operations. Its CLI is used not only by developers from their computers, but also used by Jenkins Pipeline. It is a central user interface which allows:
Read further more on Jenkins X on its official website.
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