Jenkins X can help compete effectively with other tools since it automates your entire CI/CD; from creating the Pipelines, setting up your Environments, creating Preview Environments on each Pull Request and then performing GitOps based promotion through your Environments on each release.
I'm looking forward to seeing the Jenkins ecosystem expand to offer similar automated CI/CD for other platforms too (e.g. Terraform / Ansible / VMs etc)
I saw Jenkins X a few months ago, it indeed looks interesting,
I have not used it as it's super new and I don't trust Cloudbees on the super new stuff anymore. I wish you guys all the best and I hope to use it in the future.
Talking about right now, if I remember correctly Concourse+Bosh can do a lot of that as well and it's a lot more battle tested so it's not like Jenkins X is all alone there on the "we can do everything" spot but it's refreshing to see it in the fight.
I'm looking forward to seeing the Jenkins ecosystem expand to offer similar automated CI/CD for other platforms too (e.g. Terraform / Ansible / VMs etc)