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• Jenkins X - An opinionated cloud-native CI/CD platform built on top of kubernetes
• Opinions of Jenkins X
  • Our apps run on K8S
  • We use helm and docker! No custom packaging or deployment scripts needed!
  • Uses GitOps
  • Each dev language has a reusable default structure called a “build pack”
  • Pipelines are extendable and reusable
  • Components of Jenkins X are elastic
  • Jx CLI tool used to manage our Jenkins X cluster
  • Jenkins X is very opinionated, only runs on k8s
  • Environments up and running by default with K8S
  • Sensible defaults for projects and pipelines
  • Jenkins X uses “Tekton” for it's pipeline engine, so about the only thing the same between classic jenkins and jenkins x is the name!
  • Classic CI/CD with Jenkins is not opinionated enough and requires too much customization
  • Jenkins X is opinionated and gives you an entire end-to-end CI/CD platform out of the box