Kubernetes And Jenkins X - A Cloud Native Approach

Live presentation for the Thessaloniki Software Testing and QA Meetup on 24/06/2020.

Description:
The CI/CD processes play an essential role to the quality of the product that is delivered at the end of every release cycle. Not only many people are involved, but different technologies and tools should be chosen wisely in order for the CI/CD to offer high value while the software goes through the build, test and deploy phases. But the strategy used by the team to implement the automation of those tools, depends heavily on the underlying infrastructure and architecture of the software under test. Most companies used to develop monolithic applications and just in the last decades an era of cloud computing and highly available microservices, started to gain momentum. Container technology and Kubernetes made possible the rapid deployment and scaling of such applications. What does this mean for our CI/CD strategies? In this presentation we will take a look at some common problems when trying to automate CI and CD on the traditional infrastructure and see how we can tackle them using a Cloud Native approach. We will learn how Kubernetes works, what are the benefits of GitOps and how to use Jenkins X to easily build, deploy and promote to production.