Jenkins X and Tekton

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 other types of artifacts with self customizations
• Rewrite Jenkinsfiles to match Jenkins X code syntax
• 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