GitOps and Jenkins CI with Declarative Everything

Explore a comprehensive tutorial on integrating GitOps and Jenkins CI using a fully declarative approach. Learn how to deploy Jenkins declaratively with Flux's Helm Controller, build application repositories using Jenkins for Flux deployment, test Helm charts with Flux's Flagger, and automate new releases using Flux's Image Automation Controller and Helm controller. Discover the benefits of declarative delivery with Helm and Kustomize, where Flux acts as an in-cluster agent using a pull-based model for application delivery, treating the git repository as the single source of truth. Dive into configuration-as-code practices that power an end-to-end declarative Jenkins infrastructure, including declarative Jenkinsfiles and pipelines for branch and PR builds. Finally, see how Flux can be configured to pull new image builds into a cluster, and how Porter modernizes the image build process in this 37-minute presentation from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) event.

GitOps+Jenkins-CI With Declarative Everything - Kingdon Barrett, Weaveworks