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Architectural Context

Detailed reference for OpenShift Pipelines in the context of Engineering Pipeline.

App Development

CICD

Jenkins Pipelines

  • (2018) Fabric8 Pipeline Library ⭐ 436 [GROOVY CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [LEGACY] — A reusable Jenkins Pipeline helper library that supports automated environments, build phases, and release setups within OpenShift frameworks. It is largely deprecated, superseded by modern Jenkins plugins or native Tekton pipelines.

Legacy Frameworks

  • (2018) CI/CD with fabric8 [GROOVY CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [LEGACY] — Details the classic continuous delivery orchestration patterns supported by early versions of the Fabric8 framework. Although helpful for understanding early pipeline structures, these setups are largely replaced by native GitOps and modern cloud-native pipelines.

Java

Kubernetes Clients

  • (2020) Fabric8 [JAVA CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [LEGACY] — Fabric8 historically offered a comprehensive development and integration platform for Kubernetes. While its global platform features have been deprecated or superseded, its core libraries and Eclipse JKube build helpers continue to be vital utilities in Java environments.
  • (2020) developers.redhat.com: Getting started with the fabric8 Kubernetes Java client [JAVA CONTENT] [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] [GUIDE] — A practical guide to implementing JVM program orchestration on Kubernetes clusters using the Fluent API of the Fabric8 Kubernetes Java Client. The framework supports seamless resource state management, custom resources (CRDs), and secure API server interactions.

Architectural Foundations

Kubernetes Tools

General Reference

CICD and DevOps

Enterprise Jenkins

Openshift Integration

  • (2020) Jenkins Docker Image for Openshift v3 ⭐ 261 [SHELL CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Red Hat maintained OpenShift integration image for running Jenkins natively within OpenShift clusters. Includes pre-configured plugins, service-account integration, and S2I build configurations customized for enterprise OpenShift v3/v4 environments.
  • (2020) cloudowski.com: Jenkins on OpenShift - how to use and customize it in a cloud-native way 🌟 [GROOVY CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Advanced engineering blog detailing customized, cloud-native deployments of Jenkins on OpenShift. Explains how to leverage dynamic provisioning, custom configurations, and cluster-wide persistent volumes to stabilize Jenkins infrastructure.
  • (2020) developers.redhat.com: An easier way to create custom Jenkins containers in OpenShift 4 🌟 [DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Technical deep-dive for enterprise platform engineers building custom, secure Jenkins master images for OpenShift 4. Outlines Red Hat universal base images (UBI) optimization and policy-compliant plugin packaging.
  • (2020) OpenShift Pipelines with Jenkins Blue Ocean 🌟 [GROOVY CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Guide on utilizing Jenkins Blue Ocean inside Red Hat OpenShift to build visual representations of continuous integration pipelines. Integrates OpenShift buildconfigs with user-friendly visualization panels.
  • (2020) github.com/siamaksade/jenkins-blueocean [GROOVY CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Public demonstration repository providing configured manifests for launching Jenkins Blue Ocean on OpenShift clusters. Acts as a blueprint for visualizing pipeline stages in Red Hat environments.
  • (2019) blog.openshift.com: Deploying jenkins on openshift - part 1 [SHELL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Enterprise guide illustrating structural configuration, route definition, and persistent storage bindings for deploying stable Jenkins masters inside OpenShift namespaces.
  • (2019) blog.openshift.com: Improving jenkins performance on openshift - part 2 [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Architectural performance tuning guide for running large-scale Jenkins deployments on OpenShift. Addresses JVM optimization, garbage collection configuration, build concurrency limit management, and persistent storage class optimizations.
  • (2019) blog.openshift.com: Deploying OpenShift Applications to Multiple Datacenters (with Jenkins) [GROOVY CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Advanced architectural walkthrough on utilizing Jenkins to orchestrate synchronized microservice deployments across federated, multi-datacenter OpenShift cluster topologies.

Gitops and Pipelines

Github Actions Integration

Source-to-image

Openshift S2I Workflow

Cloud Native and Kubernetes

Kubernetes API

Go Client

  • (2026) kubernetes/client-go: Go client for Kubernetes 🌟 ⭐ 9837 [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — The official Go SDK for managing Kubernetes clusters. It features critical API client mechanics like Informers, Lister-Watchers, work queues, and rate-limiting structures to build high-performance production controllers.

Cloud-native Java

Build Tools

Eclipse Jkube

Source Code
  • (2020) GitHub: Eclipse JKube ⭐ 849 [JAVA CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — The active GitHub repository for Eclipse JKube, housing Maven/Gradle plugins, extensions, and core libraries. Live Grounding indicates robust ongoing community support, enabling local resource generation, deployment, and hot-swapping inside active clusters. The project is crucial for bridging the gap between standard Java compilation and Kubernetes runtimes.

Developer Experience

Inner Loop Development

Openshift Odo CLI

Devsecops

CICD (1)

Tekton Pipelines

  • (2023) Tekton [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Deep-dive review of Tekton, a Kubernetes-native open-source framework for building continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. It structures pipeline blocks using standard CRDs (Tasks, Pipelines, PipelineRuns), eliminating VM-based runner dependencies. Live validation establishes Tekton as the standard engine powering modern cloud-native container build environments like OpenShift Pipelines.

Platform Architecture

CICD (2)

Jenkins Pipelines (1)

  • (2021) OpenShift Container Pipelines Samples 🌟 ⭐ 160 [GROOVY CONTENT] 🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [LEGACY] — A repository of pipeline configurations originally curated by the Red Hat Community of Practice. Useful for understanding legacy configurations on OpenShift 3 and 4, though modern pipelines have shifted to Tekton architectures.
  • (2021) OpenShift Pipeline Library 🌟 ⭐ 51 [GROOVY CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [LEGACY] — A collection of shared pipeline libraries providing modular groovy wrapper methods for OpenShift deployments. Most implementations are archived as enterprise standards have pivoted completely toward Tekton Pipelines and Argo CD GitOps pipelines.
  • (2019) developers.redhat.com - Get started with Jenkins CI/CD in Red Hat OpenShift 4 [GROOVY CONTENT] [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] [GUIDE] — A structured tutorial on initializing Jenkins-driven continuous delivery setups in early OpenShift 4 environments. Highlights configuration, service account configuration, and deploying pre-packaged Jenkins templates on-cluster.
  • (2017) Simply Explained: OpenShift and Jenkins Pipelines [NONE CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — An explanatory article outlining the core architectural concepts of continuous integration pipelines inside enterprise containers. Focuses on orchestrating builds, scaling execution agents dynamically, and promoting stable application rollouts.

Tekton Pipelines (1)

  • (2026) github.com/openshift/pipelines-tutorial ⭐ 322 [YAML CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — A comprehensive learning path and hands-on laboratory environment focused on Tekton. Provides configurations for Tasks, Pipelines, PipelineRuns, and Trigger EventListeners on OpenShift clusters, validating cloud-native automation patterns.
  • (2021) openshift.com: OpenShift Pipelines Advanced Triggers Part 1 - Triggering Different Project Builds in the Same Repository [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] [GUIDE] — Provides advanced architecture examples for configuring custom triggers with OpenShift Pipelines. Demonstrates how to write custom interceptors to execute discrete workflows when localized directory pathways change within shared code repos.
  • (2020) github: OpenShift Pipelines Node.js Tutorial ⭐ 5 [JAVASCRIPT CONTENT] 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Specialized quick-start laboratory focusing on Node.js application continuous delivery with OpenShift Pipelines. Guides developers through configuring trigger conditions and executing basic Source-to-Image (S2I) build pipelines.
  • (2020) developers.redhat.com: Modern web applications on OpenShift, Part 4: Openshift Pipelines [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Part of a series detailing modern web application architectures on OpenShift. Explores configuring Tekton pipelines to construct, optimize, and serve static frontend code alongside active microservices.

Devsecops (1)

Security Automation

  • (2022) openshift.com: Using OpenShift Pipelines to Automate Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] [GUIDE] — This architectural resource focuses on integrating container security scans directly into OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton) using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (RHACS). It provides continuous security analysis by scanning build environments and deployment configurations, automatically blocking vulnerable code prior to final deployment phases.

Software Engineering

Build Systems

Fabric8 Maven Plugin

  • (2023) github - fabric8, maven plugin ⭐ 334 [JAVA CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] [LEGACY] — A Maven plugin designed to package Java projects into lightweight Docker/OCI images and generate corresponding Kubernetes resource manifests automatically. Double-Evidence: Note that this project is archived and superseded by Eclipse JKube in modern development environments.

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