Jenkins X is a fairly new open source solution that extends the Jenkins ecosystem and solves the problem of automating CI/CD in the cloud using Kubernetes.
In this section, we will learn how to get your application as a pipeline into Jenkins X, which you will have deployed by following the Deploying and managing the life cycle of Jenkins X recipe instructions in Chapter 2, Operating Applications on Kubernetes. With that, you will learn how to create a CI/CD pipeline with automated GitOps and promote an application from staging to production, all by using simple commands.