What is Tekton? Tekton is a powerful and flexible open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems, allowing developers to build, test, and deploy across cloud providers and on-premises systems. Why use Tekton? Tekton pipelines have a number of benefits: they are cloud native and designed from the ground up for kubernetes each Tekton Pipeline is fully declarative and completely self described; it does not depend on any separate out of...

I would like to introduce Custom WAR Packager - a new tool for Jenkins administrators and developers. This tool allows packaging custom Jenkins distributions as WAR files, Docker images and Jenkinsfile Runner bundles. This tool allows packaging Jenkins, plugins, and configurations in a ready-to-fly distribution. Custom WAR packager is a part of the Ephemeral Jenkins controller toolchain which we presented in our A Cloud Native Jenkins blogpost. This toolchain is already used...

Anchore provides docker image analysis for user defined acceptance policies to allow automated image validation and acceptance. As developers we would like to know if a change we are proposing introduces a Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE). As operators we would like to know what running applications are affected if a new CVE is discovered. Now in Jenkins X pipelines, if we find an Anchore engine service running we...

Jenkins X is an opinionated platform for providing CI / CD on top of Kubernetes. We’ve chosen a set of core applications that we install and wire together so things work out-of-the-box, providing a turn key experience. This blog aims to build on previous introductions to Jenkins X and provide a deeper insight to what you get when you install Jenkins X. So what happens? After downloading the jx...

Its been 24 days since we announced Jenkins X, a CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes. I’m truly blown away by the response and feedback from the community - thank you! We’ve also had lots of folks report they’ve successfully used Jenkins X on a number of clouds including GKE, AWS and AKS along with on-premises clusters which is great to hear! Here’s a brief overview of the...

I recently wrote about how all the cloud platforms are all in Kubernetes and so are developers. It is an exciting time, but the problem for many is that this is a huge blank sheet of paper for how to build and deploy applications. A white space, a void, a limitless canvas of possibilities. Insert metaphors here. The problem, as you may guess, is that few people really like or are...

Lately, perhaps subtle but exciting changes are starting to happen in the Jenkins project. The past few weeks have seen the birth of two new initiatives in Jenkins: Jenkins Essentials and Jenkins X. Each is exciting in its own right, and I encourage interested parties to take a look at their goals and missions and participate in them. But in this post, I want to discuss why together...

We are excited to share and invite the community to join us on a project we’ve been thinking about over the last few months called Jenkins X which extends the Jenkins ecosystem to solve the problem of automating CI/CD in the cloud. Background The last few years have seen massive changes in the software industry: use of immutable container images for distributing software which are smaller, easier...