UI on JayeX - Cloud Native CI/CD Built On Kubernetes

CLI

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For those who like command lines you can view and watch most things via the jx command line.

You can download 3.x of jx from here: https://github.com/jenkins-x/jx/releases

Browse the command line commands along with the plugin commands

Many things in JayeX are exposed as custom resources so that you can also use kubectl to interact with the JayeX.

to view environments

kubectl get env

to view preview environments

kubectl get preview

to view build logs try:

jx pipeline log

Dashboard

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It’s a common requirement to want to view pipelines running, their logs or to be able to click on a Pull Request on your git provider and view the pipeline log for that commit on that Pull Request.

To implement this we include the jx-pipelines-visualizer application inside JayeX.

This provides a simple read only web UI for viewing pipelines and pipeline logs and its linked automatically with any Pull Request you create on repositories managed by JayeX.

Lighthouse Dashboard

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Lighthouse is the JayeX component responsible for all interactions between your Git hosting provider (GitHub, Gitlab, …) and your Kubernetes cluster. Amongst other things, it:

receive and process webhook events
trigger pipelines
handle automatic merging of Pull Requests

Lighthouse comes with an optional Web UI: lighthouse-webui-plugin - see the admin guide to install it.

This UI gives you a read-only view of:

the webhook events received and processed by Lighthouse: git push, PR events, comments, …
the Lighthouse Jobs (pipelines) created, and their states - with a direct link to the pipeline visualizer to see the logs
the Lighthouse Merge Status and History: which PRs have been automatically merged by Lighthouse

This UI will help you understand what Lighthouse is doing, and in case of issue (pipeline not triggered, PR not being automatically merged, …) it will help you find the root cause.

Lens

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Warning

Lens v6 or higher is not supported.

Lens is a desktop console for Kubernetes which runs locally on your laptop as a desktop application.

Install Lens

Download the Lens distribution for your computer then run it or follow the getting started guide

You can check out the catalog documentation for how to connect to a kubernetes cluster.

Install the JayeX extension

Lens supports extensions to support custom UIs for different extensions to Kubernetes such as JayeX.

Slack

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Many of us use chat to keep in touch with the developers and tools we work with. Slack is becoming popular in commercial settings and is already used throughout the Kubernetes open source ecosystem: including the JayeX project slack channels

To get slack notifications of pipelines you can use the jx-slack plugin.

Creating the slack app

Before you can install the jx-slack plugin you need to create a Slack app.

create a new slack app and fill in the details of the application name and associate it with the slack workspace you wish to use
navigate to the Features / OAuth & Permissions page on the slack app site

add the Scope chat:write to your bot so it can post messages to your slack workspace
find your Bot User OAuth Access Token which should start with xoxb- you will need it later…
invite the slack app you have created into whatever channels you want it to notify. e.g. inside the channel you can type @ and start typing the slack app name to send it a message which will get Slack to prompt you to invite the bot user to the room.

Installing

To install the jx-slack plugin add the following to your helmfiles/jx/helmfile.yaml file in your dev cluster git repository in the releases: section: