Jenkins on JayeX - Cloud Native CI/CD Built On Kubernetes

Getting Started

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Make sure you have got the jx 3.x binary and you have installed version 3 before proceeding.

Adding Jenkins Servers into JayeX

You can use JayeX to install one or more Jenkins servers by running the following command in a git clone of your dev cluster git repository:

jx gitops jenkins add --name myjenkins

That will add a new helmfile/myjenkins/helmfile.yaml file for the jenkins charts along with helmfile/myjenkins/values.yaml file that can be used to configure the jenkins helm chart configuration values.

GitOps Recommendations

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One of the awesome things about Jenkins is you can use it to do anything in any way you like. e.g. you can add/configure any Jenkins server via the UI which then modifies the state on disk. This can make things harder to manage at scale; tracking who changes what and to diagnose issues and perform backup and restore etc.

We have been using the GitOps approach to managing things in production for the last few years on the JayeX project and it has lots of benefits:

Jenkins Server Example

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This is an example on building a JX3 Google/GSM environment from scratch which includes a Jenkins server and the import of a pipeline. It will utilize DNS (jx3rocks.com), TLS, Let’s Encrypt certificates, and additional Jenkins plugins and installer resources. It is inteded for an audience already familiar with JayeX operability and focuses on an example of actual commands required to build and operate the environment. Additional information regarding using Google as the provider for this example can be found under Google Cloud Platform Prequisites.