Constructing the Jenkins pipeline
With all the background information, you are ready to start developing the pipeline stages required for your Jenkins pipeline. While we are utilizing Jenkins to implement our DevOps pipeline, you should be aware that other products can perform similar tasks that you may come across. Since API Connect runs on top of RedHat OpenShift, you should be aware that Tekton provides a cloud-native, open source CI/CD platform that makes it easier to deploy across multiple clouds. Tekton runs using Kubernetes so it is a natural fit for companies moving to containers and microservices. To learn more about Tekton, you can visit the following URL: https://www.openshift.com/learn/topics/pipelines.
While there are choices in terms of CI/CD, you will be learning how to implement using Jenkins in this chapter. Let's review some of the Jenkins configurations and prepare you for building the Jenkins pipeline.
Jenkins in a nutshell
Jenkins is an open source...