2 posts tagged with "DevOps"

Most of my day-to-day platform work happens in a conversation. I sit in a Claude Code session - or any AI assistant with shell access - and ask plain-language questions about the state of our delivery cluster: what's failing, what's drifting, what's vulnerable, what's stale. The agent answers by calling the krci CLI, the predictable, JSON-emitting client over the KubeRocketCI Portal's tRPC API. I read the answer, decide what to do, and when a question turns into a routine I drop the underlying invocation into a script and let it run on cron or /loop. This post is a snapshot of that workflow with one running example - operator vulnerability status - and a tour of the other questions the same pattern answers.

Building CI/CD on Kubernetes used to mean running Jenkins or GitLab CI in a pod and calling it done. Tekton changed that by making pipelines first-class Kubernetes objects - Tasks and Pipelines are CRDs, PipelineRuns are namespaced resources, and every step log is a container log. KubeRocketCI goes a step further: it ships a complete, production-grade CI/CD platform on top of Tekton so your team gets sensible defaults, a portal UI, GitOps-managed pipeline definitions, and opinionated quality gates - without the months of plumbing work that comes with assembling those pieces from scratch. I've seen teams go from a bare cluster to a working build-deploy loop in under a day using this stack.