Posts in 2021
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Hacktoberfest conclusion 2021
Monday, November 22, 2021 in News
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Hacktoberfest 2021 is over, and we got quite a few contributions from the open source community. Contributions included various document improvements, adding jira as an issue tracker for generating changelogs and adding initial support for external …
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Hacktoberfest 2021
Wednesday, October 06, 2021 in News
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We are excited to announce that Jenkins X will be participating in Hacktoberfest again this year! Hacktoberfest is a month-long global celebration of open source software. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to participate in …
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Moving Jenkins X v2 artifacts
Thursday, August 26, 2021 in News
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …