awesome-kubernetes/v2-docs/openshift-pipelines.md

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Top Openshift Pipelines resources for 2026, AI-ranked: GitHub: Eclipse JKube, Fabric8 Pipeline Library and more — curated Cloud Native tools, guides and references.

OpenShift Pipelines

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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 It is largely deprecated, superseded by modern Jenkins plugins or native Tekton pipelines.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.

CICD and DevOps

Enterprise Jenkins

OpenShift Integration

• (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

• (2020) developers.redhat.com: OpenShift Actions: Deploy to Red Hat OpenShift directly from your GitHub repository [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Technical guide on utilizing official Red Hat OpenShift GitHub Actions. Empowers developers to directly interface GitHub workflow pipelines with OpenShift clusters, deploying applications seamlessly via container commands or oc CLI bindings.

Source-To-Image

OpenShift S2I Workflow

• (2018) developers.redhat.com: Source versus binary S2I workflows with Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes [SHELL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Structural analysis of S2I builders, explaining how source repositories are dynamically injected into standardized runtime base images to produce highly secure production containers.

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

• (2024) ==ODO: OpenShift Command line for Developers 🌟== ⭐ 841 [GO CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Official repository for odo, a developer-centric CLI for Kubernetes and OpenShift. Abstracting away complex Kubernetes YAML manifests, odo prioritizes fast iterative code deployments directly to the cluster from local IDE directories.
• (2021) piotrminkowski.com: Java Development on OpenShift with odo [JAVA CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Technical guide walking through modern Java/Spring Boot development on OpenShift utilizing the odo CLI. Highlights rapid hot-reloading configurations, remote debugging execution, and container integration workflows.
• (2021) developers.redhat.com: Developing your own custom devfiles for odo 2.0 [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Explains how to design custom devfile definitions to adapt odo 2.0 pipelines to unique corporate microservice stacks. Unifies local dev environments with enterprise build rules.
• (2020) developers.redhat.com: Enterprise Kubernetes development with odo: The CLI tool for developers [SHELL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Enterprise developer introduction to the Red Hat odo CLI. Demonstrates how to write code, execute deployment commands, and inspect active microservices without needing deep knowledge of the underlying cluster APIs.
• (2020) developers.redhat.com: Kubernetes integration and more in odo 2.0 [GO CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Highlights structural improvements introduced in odo 2.0, notably standardizing configurations on Devfiles, which allows cross-platform, repeatable developer workspace environment definitions.

Platform Architecture

CICD (1)

Jenkins Pipelines (1)

• (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

• (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.

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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🔗 See Also: Kubernetes Backup Migrations | OCP 4