# Keptn. Data Driven DevOps Automation with Ketpn. Automating Service Level Indicators/Service Level Objectives based build validation with Keptn and Jenkins

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## Cloud Native Lifecycle

### CICD Pipelines

#### Community Meetups

  - **(2020)** [Jenkins Online Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/jenkins-online-meetup/events/270861119)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — Community recording detailing real-world workflows for integrating Jenkins-centric deployment systems with Keptn's automated SRE-driven quality evaluation gates.
#### Jenkins Integration

  - **(2022)** [Keptn Jenkins Shared Library](https://github.com/keptn-sandbox/keptn-jenkins-library) <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>⭐ 8</span> <svg class="v2-sparkline" width="50" height="15" viewBox="0 0 50 15" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; margin-left: 6px;" title="Activity Trend"><defs><linearGradient id="spark-grad-f483ffd5" x1="0" y1="0" x2="1" y2="0"><stop offset="0%" stop-color="rgba(34, 211, 238, 0.2)" /><stop offset="100%" stop-color="var(--md-accent-fg-color)" /></linearGradient></defs><path class="v2-sparkline-path" d="M 0 7 L 10 2 L 20 4 L 30 3 L 40 7 L 50 4" fill="none" stroke="url(#spark-grad-f483ffd5)" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" /><circle cx="50" cy="4" r="2" fill="var(--md-accent-fg-color)" /></svg> <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[GROOVY CONTENT]</span> <span class='md-tag md-tag--critical'>[ADVANCED LEVEL]</span> 🌟 <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — A pipeline-as-code integration allowing Jenkins jobs to dispatch Keptn-driven operations such as performance testing, quality gate validation, and continuous remediation, combining classic CI with modern orchestrators.
#### Video Guides

  - **(2020)** [youtube: Level-Up your Jenkins-based Delivery with Keptn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYRdirdjOAg)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — Visual walk-through demonstrating how Keptn decouples delivery orchestrations from Jenkinsfiles. Shows how to configure service quality gates using declarative SLIs/SLOs to automatically rollback failing pipelines.
### Continuous Delivery

#### Enterprise Observability

  - **(2021)** [dynatrace.com: What is keptn, how it works and how to get started!](https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/what-is-keptn-how-it-works-and-how-to-get-started)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — Explores how Keptn abstracts CD and automated operations away from brittle scripts. Highlights how combining Dynatrace's enterprise APM observability with Keptn's automated quality gates ensures high-assurance software promotion.
#### Guides

  - **(2023)** [Quick Start](https://v1.keptn.sh/docs/quickstart)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> <span class='md-tag md-tag--secondary'>[GUIDE]</span> — Official step-by-step documentation for installing Keptn in a Kubernetes cluster, defining uniform delivery pipelines, configuring service-level objectives (SLOs), and executing an initial automated deployment.
#### Site Reliability Engineering

  - **(2023)** [Keptn](https://keptn.sh/stable) <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[GO CONTENT]</span> <span class='md-tag md-tag--critical'>[ADVANCED LEVEL]</span>  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — A CNCF incubating project providing event-driven orchestration for continuous delivery and automated operations. Uses CloudEvents standards and a GitOps approach to automate deployment, testing, and multi-stage promotion of services.
### Local Environments

#### K3s Sandboxing

  - **(2021)** [github.com/keptn-sandbox/keptn-on-k3s: Tutorial: Keptn for Dynatrace Users' in 5 Minutes 🌟](https://github.com/keptn-sandbox/keptn-on-k3s/blob/master/README-KeptnForDynatrace.md) <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>⭐ 29</span> <svg class="v2-sparkline" width="50" height="15" viewBox="0 0 50 15" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; margin-left: 6px;" title="Activity Trend"><defs><linearGradient id="spark-grad-41230870" x1="0" y1="0" x2="1" y2="0"><stop offset="0%" stop-color="rgba(34, 211, 238, 0.2)" /><stop offset="100%" stop-color="var(--md-accent-fg-color)" /></linearGradient></defs><path class="v2-sparkline-path" d="M 0 5 L 10 13 L 20 11 L 30 9 L 40 5 L 50 6" fill="none" stroke="url(#spark-grad-41230870)" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" /><circle cx="50" cy="6" r="2" fill="var(--md-accent-fg-color)" /></svg> <span class='md-tag md-tag--warning'>[SHELL CONTENT]</span> 🌟 <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — Lightweight integration environment designed to host a full-featured Keptn sandbox on a resource-constrained K3s Kubernetes cluster, integrated with Dynatrace agents for rapid performance evaluations.
#### Video Guides (1)

  - **(2021)** [youtube: Tutorial - Keptn in a box](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQAXQrKhIt0&ab_channel=keptn)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — Step-by-step video configuration demonstrating the execution of Keptn within local virtualized micro-clusters, streamlining testing of SRE control-planes on local machines.
### Site Reliability Engineering (1)

#### Monitoring Automation

  - **(2021)** [thenewstack.io: How Keptn Automatically Configures Prometheus Ecosystems](https://thenewstack.io/how-keptn-automatically-configures-prometheus-ecosystems) <span class='md-tag md-tag--critical'>[ADVANCED LEVEL]</span>  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> — Explores how Keptn acts as a declarative orchestrator for Prometheus alerting rules and target configurations. Eliminates manual dashboarding by automatically auto-generating Prometheus metrics rules based on SLO profiles.
## Observability

### Application Performance Monitoring

#### Guides (1)

  - **(2021)** [dynatrace-perfclinics.github.io: Why Devs Love Dynatrace 🌟](https://dynatrace-perfclinics.github.io/codelabs/why-devs-love-dynatrace-2/index.html)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> <span class='md-tag md-tag--secondary'>[GUIDE]</span> — Technical codelab demonstrating how developers leverage Dynatrace APM to identify code-level bottlenecks, analyze database performance, and utilize auto-remediation loops within automated delivery pipelines.

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💡 **Explore Related:** [Jenkins](./jenkins.md) | [Tekton](./tekton.md) | [Argo](./argo.md)

🔗 **See Also:** [Postman](./postman.md) | [Angular](./angular.md)