Jenkins X provides pipeline automation, built-in GitOps, and preview environments to help teams collaborate and accelerate their software delivery at any scale
Pros:
- End to End CI / CD integration including pushing images to registry, artifacts to Nexus
- Full integration with Github
- Full integration with GitOps to create and manage environments
- Support for preview environments for pull requests using Knative (Optional - Comes bundled with Jenkins X if required)
- Can create and update helm charts after a build and and deploy and auto commit to repository
- Internally translates all CI / CD pipelines to tekton pipelines
- A promising tool - Jenkins + Tekton with a highly active community backed by big organizations
- Artifact promotion to various environments based on criterias set by us
Cons:
- Very minimal UI - Unlike the traditional Jenkins
- Command line based approach
- Mainly intended for container build and deployment but can support othe types of artifacts with self customizations
- Conversion of our current Jenkinsfiles to Jenkins X is not straight forward but can be done with moderate effort
- Lots of tweaking and changes required in build and deployment strategy to make it work for our use case
- Requires at least 3 nodes in cluster to handle the Jenkins master, other dependent components and worker pods
Jenkins X Typical Workflow
Jenkins X Typical Workflow - Detailed
Jenkins X Components
