The OpenShift Jenkins Client Plug-in provides a fluent-styled DSL for communicating with the OpenShift API from within the Jenkins slaves. The OpenShift DSL is based on Groovy syntax and provides methods for controlling the lifecycle of your application such as create, build, deploy, and delete.
What is the purpose of OpenShift?
Red Hat OpenShift is a Kubernetes distribution focused on developer experience and application security that’s platform agnostic. OpenShift helps you develop and deploy applications to one or more hosts. These can be public facing web applications, or backend applications, including micro services or databases.
What is Tekton pipeline?
Tekton is an open source project that provides a framework to create cloud-native CI/CD pipelines quickly. As a Kubernetes-native framework, Tekton makes it easier to deploy across multiple cloud providers or hybrid environments.
Is OpenShift a CI CD tool?
Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines is a cloud-native, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) solution based on Kubernetes resources. It uses Tekton building blocks to automate deployments across multiple platforms by abstracting away the underlying implementation details.
How do I stop pipeline Jenkins?
Pipeline jobs can by stopped by sending an HTTP POST request to URL endpoints of a build. BUILD ID URL/stop – aborts a Pipeline. BUILD ID URL/term – forcibly terminates a build (should only be used if stop does not work).
How do I build a Jenkins pipeline?
To create a simple pipeline from the Jenkins interface, perform the following steps:
- Click New Item on your Jenkins home page, enter a name for your (pipeline) job, select Pipeline, and click OK.
- In the Script text area of the configuration screen, enter your pipeline syntax.
Which is the best framework for OpenShift pipelines?
OpenShift Pipelines is a cloud-native, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) solution for building pipelines using Tekton. Tekton is a flexible, Kubernetes-native, open-source CI/CD framework that enables automating deployments across multiple platforms (Kubernetes, serverless, VMs, etc) by abstracting away the underlying details.
What are the features of OpenShift pipelines in tekton?
Tekton is a flexible, Kubernetes-native, open-source CI/CD framework that enables automating deployments across multiple platforms (Kubernetes, serverless, VMs, etc) by abstracting away the underlying details. OpenShift Pipelines features:
Where can I find reusable tasks in OpenShift?
You can find more examples of reusable tasks in the Tekton Catalog and OpenShift Catalog repositories. Install the apply-manifests and update-deployment tasks from the repository using oc or kubectl, which you will need for creating a pipeline in the next section:
How to change from administrator to developer in OpenShift?
Change from Administrator to Developer from the drop down as shown below: Make sure you are on the pipelines-tutorial project by selecting it from the Project dropdown menu. Either search for pipelines-tutorial in the search bar or scroll down until you find pipelines-tutorial and click on the name of your project.
