This is great because the technology landscape of web ap- plication development is evolving at a breakneck speed, and that’s forcing everyone to pause and understand how to effectively utilize the latest additions to their toolbox. Kubernetes, twelve factor apps, environment provision- ing, horizontal scaling … the list goes on. It’s almost as if what’s supposed to make you productive is actually slow- ing you down. That’s why we built Jenkins X. It takes all those concerns and bottlenecks out of the process. It makes the easiest thing the right thing, so that you can focus on what mat- ters. And above all, we built Jenkins X because we are driven by the basic human desire to help others. Indeed, people in the Jenkins community take great pride and satisfac- tion in helping you, our fellow software developers. So please take this little gift from us. I know you will like it. Kohsuke Kawaguchi Creator of Jenkins, CTO of CloudBees, Inc. viii