DevOps Guide on JayeX - Cloud Native CI/CD Built On Kubernetes

Accelerate

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JayeX is a reimagined CI/CD implementation for the Cloud which is heavily influenced by the State of DevOps reports and more recently the Accelerate book from Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim.

Years of gathering data from real world teams and organizations which has been analyzed by inspiring thought leaders and data scientists from the DevOps world. The Accelerate book recommends a number of capabilities that JayeX is implementing so users gain the scientifically proven benefits, out of the box. We’ve started documenting the capabilities that are available today and will continue as more become available.

GitOps

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The idea of GitOps is to treat everything as source code, including your infrastructure, and check it into git and version it.

So rather than connecting to a machine in your cluster, you make changes via Pull Requests in git. This means:

every change is audited so you can see who changed what, when and why
its easy to revert changes to your infrastructure if things go bad
teams can easily review changes to work more effectively as a team, share knowledge and get better feedback

Challenges

Secrets

One of the biggest challenges with GitOps is dealing with secrets.

Cloud Native

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One of the Accelerate recommendations is around using the cloud well; letting developers use the cloud to solve software problems.

Here are a few of the lessons we have learnt about using the cloud well.

Prefer cloud over kubernetes

You can deploy a database via a helm chart in your kubernetes cluster. Or you can configure your cloud provider to create a managed database offering.

You can deploy, say, vault as helm charts inside your kubernetes cluster. Or you can use your cloud providers secret store solution such as: