jep

I defer the question about container building in Kubernetes to somebody from the Jenkins X team, but I wanted to respond to your side note. Offloading build queue outside Jenkins to another service, auto-scaling of build servers, configuring Jenkins with your configuration management tools are all something we are thinking about / looking into / actively working on. Some of them haven't gotten to the point of proper write-up yet, but see - https://github.com/jenkinsci/jep/tree/master/jep/201 - https://github.com/jenkinsci/configuration-as-code-plugin - https://github.com/kohsuke/jenkinsfile-runner

Not sure if you answered this already but I still have GP's question unanswered in my head > What is Jenkins X exactly, and how does it relate to Jenkins? Is it just a CLI utility that generates git repos, k8s clusters and Jenkinsfiles for us? Is it a fork of Jenkins? This seems like the best resource on what exactly this is https://github.com/jenkinsci/jep/tree/master/jep/400 So looks like its just a CLI tool that generates bunch of stuff for kubernetes and jenkins. Is that right?