Red Hat Tech Talk for Westpac: Tekton - Does the world really need another CI/CD Pipeline?

Overview

Red Hat Tech Talk for Westpac: Tekton - Does the world really need another CI/CD Pipeline?

In this Tech Talk we look at Tekton, the Kubernetes-native CI/CD, through the objective lens of the more traditional Jenkins Pipelines running on Kubernetes and attempt to answer the question whether the world really needs another CI/CD toolchain.

We'll compare and contrast the approaches with a discussion and demo of how the two CI/CD products implement the typical pipeline phases of building a java application (e.g. build, test, analyse, image-build, etc) in Kubernetes. And we'll find out what Tekton has to do with a cheesy "Reese's Peanut Butter Cups" commercial from the 1980s.

No prior knowledge of Tekton is necessary and links to a demo repo will be provided for those that persevere to the end of the talk!

Key Learning Points:

Why Tekton matters (at least in Kubernetes)
Foundational Tekton Architecture and Features
Demo of example Jenkins Pipeline translated into Tekton
Similarities and differences between Tekton and Jenkins approach
Where does this all lead? The future of CI/CD

Who can benefit from this Tech Talk?

Anyone who works with applications deployed on Kubernetes and is involved in the set up, maintenance, and/or usage of a CI/CD toolchain. Those that are curious why Google, Red Hat, and others are investing so heavily in yet another approach to CI/CD.

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