Blog: Accelerate your Tekton with Jenkins X

Accelerate your Tekton with Jenkins X Version 2. x Vision Version 3. x Using Tekton in your repository Reusing Tekton Catalog Tasks Sharing steps between Tasks Custom Pipeline Catalogs Conclusion One of the goals of Jenkins X has always been to help accelerate and automate Continuous Delivery so that developers can focus on delivering value to their customers; either by creating that new microservice or adding features to an existing project and not writing and managing pipelines. Pipeline engines like Jenkins and Tekton are awesome - they can do anything! But they start as a blank sheet of paper where you have to fill in all the details of how to compile your code, test it, verify it, tag it, release, distribute and delivery it to production. Figuring all that stuff out can take a huge amount of time to create and maintain. This gets even more complex as we are all creating more and more microservices each with their own pipelines making more and more things to create and manage. We want to be able to reuse pipelines and tasks to get work done. But at the same time we want flexibility; not all applications are the same and sometimes things need to be changed on a per team or application basis. In Jenkins X 2. x we went with a jenkins-x. xml approach to pipelines which let you inherit pipelines from reuable pipeline library and then use a composition DSL above Tekton which lets you add/remove/replace steps. jenkins-x.