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Jenkins X
Automated CI/CD with GitOps promotion and preview environments on Kubernetes.
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GitOps CI/CD Kubernetes-tools
Overview
An open-source CI/CD solution for Kubernetes with automated GitOps promotion and preview environments.
Key Features
- Automated CI/CD pipelines using Tekton under the hood
- GitOps promotion: dev → staging → production via pull requests
- Preview environments automatically created for every pull request
- Automatic versioning and semantic release management
- Built-in Helm chart management with ChartMuseum
- Lighthouse for webhook handling and pipeline triggering from Git
Real-World Workflows
Automated preview environments per pull request
- 1Developer opens a pull request to the application repository
- 2Jenkins X pipeline builds the image and deploys it to a temporary namespace
- 3Preview URL is posted as a comment on the pull request
- 4QA and reviewers test the change in the live preview environment
- 5On merge, the preview is cleaned up and the change promotes to staging
Getting Started
# Install the jx CLI: brew install jenkins-x/jx/jx # Bootstrap on a Kubernetes cluster: jx boot
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