How Jenkins X works with Kubernetes using PROW and Tekton?

Jenkins X is an automated CD+CI tool build to work with Kubernetes. It uses PROW component for CD/CI that Kubernetes uses.

What happens when we create a quickstart using Jenkins X?

Once you have chosen the project to create and given it a name the following is automated for you:

creates a new application from the quickstart in a sub directory

add your source code into a git repository

create a remote git repository on a git service, such as GitHub

push your code to the remote git service

adds default files:

if you are using Jenkins X Pipelines and tekton then:

a webhook is registered on the remote git repository which triggers prow/lighthouse to trigger a tekton pipeline
add the repository to the prow configuration

if you are using a Jenkins Server then:

a webhook is registered on the remote git repository which triggers a pipeline in Jenkins
create a multi-branch project in your Jenkins server

trigger the first pipeline

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