What Now?

I hope that your head isn’t spinning too much after this introduction to quickstart projects and Jenkins X in general. The goal was not to present you with details nor to explain the process and the tools in depth. I wanted you to get the general feeling of how Jenkins X works before we dive deeper into details.

I find it challenging to understand detailed concepts without having at least a high-level practical introduction to how things work. Now that we’ve seen Jenkins X in action, we can dive into more specific topics. The next one we’ll explore is importing existing projects into Jenkins X. Unless your company was created yesterday, it is almost guaranteed that you already have some code repositories that you might want to move over to Jenkins X.

All in all, this was a very quick introduction, and the real fun is coming next.

Now is a good time for you to take a break.

Please go out (back) of the jx-go directory.

How to free up the resources?#

If you created a cluster for the purpose of the exercises we executed, please destroy it. We’ll start each chapter from scratch as a way to save you from running your cluster longer than necessary and pay more than needed to your hosting vendor. If you created the cluster or installed Jenkins X using one of the Gists from the beginning of this chapter, you’ll find the instructions on how to destroy the cluster or uninstall everything at the bottom.

If you did choose to destroy the cluster or to uninstall Jenkins X, please remove the repositories we created as well as the local files. You can use the commands that follow for that.

If you are planning to move into the next chapter right away. If that’s the case, there are no cleanup actions, just keep reading.

In the next lesson, we will take a quiz and review some of the material we learned in this chapter.