On the latest episode of DevOps Radio, Host Brian Dawson is joined by the CloudBees Jenkins X team consisting of Mo Plassnig, James Rawlings and James Strachan.
The conversation focuses on the latest updates on CloudBees CI/CD powered by Jenkins X, which was recently launched. This software service is hosted by Jenkins X and allows users to automate CI/CD immediately with a “click of a button.” As James Strachan says, “You don't need to know anything about Kubernetes. You don't need to ask your boss for a credit card account with the Google Cloud or anything. You can just go click, click, click, and you get CI/CD as a service, which is a game-changer.”
The group then dives in on the areas that they wanted to address within Jenkins X. They said when designing CloudBees CI/CD powered by Jenkins X, they used recommendations from colleagues and other developers about workflows. They note that part of the experience from SaaS is taking those recommendations like Kubernetes, trunk-based development, automated CI/CD and using version control. All of these capabilities are out of the box and create a whole new experience on the software.
The group continues to share that they found by constantly trying to improve how their development process works - and how the tools in Jenkins X work - they often found that they started to develop in new ways. So, even as developers, things like workflows and preview environments changed as they learned new ways to work.
They close out the conversation saying there’s no better time to be a developer than now. They say that there’s so many tools out there that make it easier and really allow developers to focus on building features and differentiating capabilities versus doing a lot of the heavy lifting that has been traditionally needed. However, there’s still hurdles that developers face, and Jenkins X is designed to address those challenges and work to meet the needs of developers.
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