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  • 2021-11-22
    Jenkins X

    Blog: Hacktoberfest conclusion 2021

    Hacktoberfest conclusion 2021 Ask us questions 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 vault! The top contributors to Jenkins X in hacktoberfest 2021 were: Marten Svantesson Christopher vig James Rawlings Hays Clark Anatoli Babenia We would also like to thank all the contributors who participated and made it a success.

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  • 2021-10-06
    Jenkins X

    Blog: Hacktoberfest 2021

    Hacktoberfest 2021 Contribute to Jenkins X docs Ask us questions 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 Hacktoberfest and join a global community of open source contributors.

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  • 2021-08-26
    Jenkins X

    Blog: Moving Jenkins X v2 artifacts

    Moving Jenkins X v2 artifacts ACTION REQUIRED Why the disruption? What is changing? v2 users v3 users When will all this take place? Why are only the most recent versions v2 images copied to GitHub packages and not all versions? I’m on v2 and use a builder image which is not available on GitHub container registry, how do I build my own version to work with the new helm and image repositories? I’m getting a missing arg --provider-values-dir and helm repository https://jenkins-x-charts. github.

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  • 2021-08-18
    Jenkins X

    Blog: How to debug your Tekton pipelines

    How to debug your Tekton pipelines How to debug Tekton Pipelines Prerequisites Enable a breakpoint Viewing breakpoints Using a breakpoint Opening a shell Continuing after the breakpoint Removing breakpoints Conclusion 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. TaskRun The latest Tekton release only supports breakpoints on TaskRun resources but there is a Pull Request #4145 to add support also to debugging PipelineRun resources as well.

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  • 2021-08-17
    Jenkins X

    Blog: How to use GitOps and Kubernetes External Secrets for better audit and security

    How to use GitOps and Kubernetes External Secrets for better audit and security Standardising GitOps layouts Why Jenkins X uses helmfile template Why we use Kubernetes External Secrets How to use this approach to GitOps and Secrets if not using Jenkins X Summary 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 versioned and audited; you know who changed what, when and why.

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  • 2021-07-09
    Kubernetes.dev Blog

    Blog: How to choose a SIG as a non-code Kubernetes contributor

    How to choose a SIG as a non-code Kubernetes contributor How I found my SIG How I contribute Hop into the Kubernetes community By Chris Short Kubernetes contributors aren’t people in capes or part of some secret society. How to start committing to the GitHub repos that make up the project is well documented , yet it remains intimidating for many.

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  • 2021-06-28
    Jenkins X

    Blog: Jenkins X 3 and Argo CD

    Jenkins X 3 and Argo CD Install Argo CD with Jenkins X Conclusion 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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  • 2021-06-25
    Jenkins X

    Blog: Continuous microservices with databases in Jenkins X

    Continuous microservices with databases in Jenkins X Before you start Create the quickstart How does it work Previews How we can improve More languages and frameworks Cloud databases More modularity options Conclusion 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 created a new node-postgresql quickstart.

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  • 2021-06-22
    Jenkins X

    Blog: Jenkins X at cdCon

    Jenkins X at cdCon Tuesday, June 22 GitOps Summit Wednesday, June 23 Thursday, June 24 cdCon 2021 is about to start with lots of great sessions. Here’ a list of the Jenkins X related sessions: Best Practices for Secret Management with GitOps - Kara de la Marck , CloudBees GitOps uses Git as the “single source of truth” for declarative infrastructure and enables developers to manage infrastructure with the same Git-based workflows they use to manage a codebase.

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  • 2021-05-17
    Jenkins X

    Blog: Don't use docker, use kubernetes

    Don't use docker, use kubernetes Why use kubernetes instead of docker? How to get kubernetes? How do I connect to kubernetes? How do I replace docker with kubernetes? docker run => kubectl run docker build => kubectl build compose => helm testcontainers => sidecars / kubedock help! we are not even using kubernetes yet other handy kubectl commands inner loop Conclusion 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.

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