Using the Tekton Client Plugin for Jenkins
Channel: Jenkins
Date: 14/05/2021

Recording of the online Meetup on May 14, 2021. Presenters: Vibhav Bobade, James Strachan, Gareth Evans.

Kubernetes has become the staple for cloud native infrastructure today. With the rise of the microservice architecture and focus on container based serverless solutions, CI/CD solutions also have to adhere to what works best on Kubernetes.

Tekton is a Pipeline engine which checks all the boxes for a performant Cloud Native CI/CD solution. It provides users the ability to create composable pipelines which run on serverless workloads in Kubernetes. And now it is possible to use Tekton itself via Jenkins. With the Tekton Client Plugin, the user would be able to manage Tekton resources from their Jenkins instance and run Tekton Pipelines in the cloud. In this meetup we will discuss and demo how one can configure the Tekton Client Plugin and use it to deploy to Kubernetes in an efficient and Cloud Native fashion.

References:
* Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/Jenkins-online-meetup/events/278067201/
* Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1voA1RR2U74GG0rzd4BGruslWgUmIZWR69n8mDqo2POk/edit?usp=sharing
* Plugin repo: https://github.com/jenkinsci/tekton-client-plugin
* Tekton: https://tekton.dev/
* Blogpost by James Strachan: https://cd.foundation/blog/2020/11/05/bridging-the-gap-with-tekton-client-plugin-for-jenkins/

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