Monthly Archives: October 2019

Converting Helm Charts Into Jenkins X Apps

Your cluster is bound to run quite a few third-party applications. They need to be installed and managed somehow. This article offers one possible way to install and maintain third-party applications using Jenkins X Apps. We’ll use Istio as an example of such an application and try to figure out how to convert its official Helm charts into Jenkins X Apps and, during that process, explore some of the benefits they provide.

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What Is Jenkins X Boot And Why Do We Need It?

What’s wrong with jx create cluster and jx install commands? Why do we need a different way to install, manage, and upgrade Jenkins X? Those are ad-hoc commands that do not follow GitOpts principles. They are not idempotent (you cannot run them multiple times and expect the same result). They are not stored in Git, at least not in a form that the system can interpret and consume in an attempt to converge the desired into the actual state. They are not declarative.

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