jenkins

Fasten your safety belt, and departing …..

1. Create a pipeline job.
2. Setup your SCM and build from Jenkinsfile (sample provided below).

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//Sample Jenkinsfile 
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def AGENT_LABEL = "slave-${UUID.randomUUID().toString()}"
def K8S_DEPLOYMENT_FILE = "k8s-service.yml"

// This is where the dynamic slave magic happen, 
// it launch the agent using randomly generated number as k8s pod 
pipeline {
    agent {
        kubernetes {
            label "${AGENT_LABEL}"
            defaultContainer 'jenkins-jnlp-slave-docker'
            yamlFile 'k8s-jnlp-slave.yml'
        }
    }

    stages {
        stage('Build artifacts') {
            steps {
                // maven3 need to pre-configure in Jenkins
                // mavenSettingsConfig is optional when you have customize settings.xml file using Config File Management plugin
                withMaven(maven: 'maven3', mavenSettingsConfig: 'maven-settings') {                    
                    sh "mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true"
                }
            }
        }

        stage('Build Docker Image') {
            steps {
                script {
                    withEnv(["WORKSPACE=${pwd()}"]) {                                            
                        //docker-credential is credential set in Jenkins to authenticate against your docker registry
                        docker.withRegistry("YOUR_NEXUS_REGISTRY", 'docker-credential') {
                            def image = docker.build("YOUR_IMAGE_NAME", "PROJECT_DIR/Dockerfile .")   
                            image.push()                            
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }       

        stage('Run kubernetes deployment') {
            steps {                
                // kubeconfig is your kube config file which need to pre-configure in Jenkins as secret file
                // check step 5 below
                withKubeConfig([credentialsId: 'kubeconfig']) {                    
                    sh "kubectl create -f ${K8S_DEPLOYMENT_FILE}"                    
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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#Sample k8s-jnlp-slave.yml
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apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  labels:
    name: jenkins-jnlp-slave-docker
spec:
  containers:
  - name: jenkins-jnlp-slave-docker
    image: d1ck50n/jenkins-jnlp-slave-docker:latest
    command: ['cat']
    tty: true
    imagePullPolicy: Always    
    volumeMounts:
    - name: dockersock
      mountPath: "/var/run/docker.sock"
  imagePullSecrets:
  - name: tntcred
  volumes:
  - name: dockersock
    hostPath:
      path: /var/run/docker.sock

Jenkins slave is docker, and we will use it to build our docker images, which means we will need to have a docker engine inside Jenkins slave docker (a.k.a docker in docker). Since I’m not able to make use of ready made docker image available @ docker hub as my jenkins slave (I need jdk, maven, kubectl… too as my jenkins slave) , so I created my own based on jenkins/jnlp-slave image.
To achieve DoD, we map the docker.sock from the host to our container (‘dockersock’ in k8s-jnlp-slave.yml).

3. Install plugins as below:
4.Create jenkins kubernetes plugin by adding new entry.

5. Fill in configuration according to your kubernetes cluster or use your kube config file by adding credential as highlighted below:

6. Regardless you configure manually or using your customize kube config file, you need to test the connection.
7. Build your job and you should see a new node created and start building.
Source available @ github.

Credits to authors and websites below:

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