Posts in 2021
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Moving Jenkins X v2 artifacts
Thursday, August 26, 2021 in News
ACTION REQUIRED TL;DR - Jenkins X specific helm repositories and container registries hosted on GCP have been moved to GitHub. This will mainly affect jx v2 users but there is expected to be a small impact on v3 users too. Below describes the steps …
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How to debug your Tekton pipelines
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 in News
Tekton recently introduced a debug feature when you create TaskRun resources so that steps can be paused at a breakpoint until told to move forwards so that you can diagnose why pipeline steps fail. The latest Tekton release only supports breakpoints …
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How to use GitOps and Kubernetes External Secrets for better audit and security
Tuesday, August 17, 2021 in News
So GitOps is a cool approach to managing kubernetes resources in a cluster, by checking in the source code for: the kubernetes YAMLs details of the helm charts you want to install along with any configuration kustomize scripts. Then everything is …
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Jenkins X 3 and Argo CD
Monday, June 28, 2021 in News
There have been a number of requests from the Jenkins X community to use Argo CD for the last mile deployment phase of their continuous delivery pipelines. This blog explains some of the advantages of using Jenkins X and Argo CD all together. …
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Continuous microservices with databases in Jenkins X
Friday, June 25, 2021 in News
A common question we get asked on the Jenkins X project is how to get started creating microservices that use databases with automated CI/CD with GitOps Promotion and Preview Environments. To make things a little easier to get started we’ve …
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Jenkins X at cdCon
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 in News
cdCon 2021 is about to start with lots of great sessions. Here' a list of the Jenkins X related sessions: Tuesday, June 22 GitOps Summit Best Practices for Secret Management with GitOps - Kara de la Marck, CloudBees GitOps uses Git as the “single …
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Don't use docker, use kubernetes
Monday, May 17, 2021 in News
Are you developing software that’s intended to run on kubernetes? If so we recommend not to use docker on your laptop. Docker on Windows/MacOS helps you run a VM that can then run linux containers easily. But why bother? We highly recommend …
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Jenkins X 3 - May 2021 LTS
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 in News
May 2001 LTS release is now available! LTS is a slower cadence version stream which contains a verified set of releases and configurations that have been used by teams tracking the bleeding edge Jenkins X. Included in this release: Protect Pipeline …
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Jenkins X 3.x GA is here!
Thursday, April 15, 2021 in News
I’m super excited to announce the 3.0 GA (General Availability) release of Jenkins X! Jenkins X automates your CI/CD on kubernetes to help you accelerate: Automated CI/CD pipelines lets you focus on your actually application code while Jenkins …
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Jenkins X 3 - April 2021 LTS
Monday, April 12, 2021 in News
This is the second LTS release for Jenkins X 3.x. LTS is a slower cadence version stream which contains a verified set of releases and configurations that have been used by teams tracking the bleeding edge Jenkins X. Initially when we decided to …