So I hope the above has given you a feel for the vision of where we are heading with Jenkins X and to show where we are today. The project is still very young, we have lots to do and we are looking for more input on where to go next and what to focus on. We’re also working on high level roadmap.

To make Jenkins X a success we’d love you to get involved, try it out and give us feedback in the community! We love contributions whether its email, chat, issues or even better Pull Requests ;).

If you’re thinking of contributing here’s some ideas:

To help get faster feedback we are using Jenkins X as the CI/CD platform to develop Jenkins X itself. For example Jenkins X creates all the releases and release notes. We’ll talk more about UpdateBot in a future blog post but you can see all the automated pull requests generated in the various Jenkins X pipelines via UpdateBot pushing version changes from upstream dependencies into downstream repositories.

Note that the Jenkins community tends to use IRC for chat and the Kubernetes community uses Slack, so Jenkins X has rooms for both IRC and slack depending on which chat technology you prefer - as the Jenkins X community will be working closely with both the Jenkins community and the various Kubernetes communities (Kubernetes, Helm, Skaffold, Istio et al).

One of the most rewarding things about open source is being able to learn from others in the community. So I’m hoping that even if you are not yet ready to use Kubernetes in your day job or are not yet interested in automating your Continuous Delivery - that you’ll at least consider taking a look at Jenkins X, if for no other reason than to help you learn more about all these new ideas, technologies and approaches!