Chapter 11. DevOps and CI/CD

Question 1

What is a Jenkins Pipeline`?

Answer 1

• series of plugins that collectively implement Continuous Delivery
• represents the entire application lifecycle

Question 2

What are Options for CICD?

Answer 2

• Jenkins
• Travis CI
• Concourse (open source)

Question 3

Name a few tools that integrate well with Kubernetes for cloud native applications?

Answer 3

• Helm: popular package manager for Kubernetes
• Skaffold: supports build, push and deploy to the Kubernetes cluster
• Argo: family of tools aimed at workflow management on Kubernetes Clusters
• Flux: open source tools, enable GitOps and CD on Kubernetes
• Gitlab: DevOps platform
• Jenkins X: Popular tool for CICD