Deploying Jenkins

Deploy production ready Jenkins manifest

This document describes the procedure for deploying Jenkins.

Prerequisites

The Operator needs to have been deployed beforehand. The procedure for deploying Jenkins described here doesn’t apply to installation of Operator via Helm chart unless jenkins.enabled was set to false. That’s because by default, installation via Helm chart also covers deploying Jenkins.

Deploying Jenkins instance

Once Jenkins Operator is up and running let’s deploy actual Jenkins instance. Create manifest e.g. jenkins_instance.yaml with following data and save it on drive.

apiVersion: jenkins.io/v1alpha2
kind: Jenkins
metadata:
  name: example
  namespace: default
spec:
  configurationAsCode:
    configurations: []
    secret:
      name: ""
  groovyScripts:
    configurations: []
    secret:
      name: ""
  jenkinsAPISettings:
    authorizationStrategy: createUser
  master:
    disableCSRFProtection: false
    containers:
      - name: jenkins-master
        image: jenkins/jenkins:2.277.4-lts-alpine
        imagePullPolicy: Always
        livenessProbe:
          failureThreshold: 12
          httpGet:
            path: /login
            port: http
            scheme: HTTP
          initialDelaySeconds: 100
          periodSeconds: 10
          successThreshold: 1
          timeoutSeconds: 5
        readinessProbe:
          failureThreshold: 10
          httpGet:
            path: /login
            port: http
            scheme: HTTP
          initialDelaySeconds: 80
          periodSeconds: 10
          successThreshold: 1
          timeoutSeconds: 1
        resources:
          limits:
            cpu: 1500m
            memory: 3Gi
          requests:
            cpu: "1"
            memory: 500Mi
  seedJobs:
    - id: jenkins-operator
      targets: "cicd/jobs/*.jenkins"
      description: "Jenkins Operator repository"
      repositoryBranch: master
      repositoryUrl: https://github.com/jenkinsci/kubernetes-operator.git

Deploy a Jenkins to Kubernetes:

kubectl create -f jenkins_instance.yaml

Watch the Jenkins instance being created:

kubectl get pods -w

Get the Jenkins credentials:

kubectl get secret jenkins-operator-credentials-<cr_name> -o 'jsonpath={.data.user}' | base64 -d
kubectl get secret jenkins-operator-credentials-<cr_name> -o 'jsonpath={.data.password}' | base64 -d

Connect to the Jenkins instance (minikube):

minikube service jenkins-operator-http-<cr_name> --url

Connect to the Jenkins instance (actual Kubernetes cluster):

kubectl port-forward jenkins-<cr_name> 8080:8080

Then open browser with address http://localhost:8080.

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Last modified December 8, 2021