Setting up Jenkins
In the preceding section, we leveraged the image operations to Google Cloud Platform, but now, we need to manage Kubernetes in a CI/CD fashion from somewhere. In this case, we are going to use Jenkins for this purpose. We have several options here:
- Deploy Jenkins in Kubernetes
- Install Jenkins in baremetal
- Install Jenkins in a container outside of Kubernetes
Lately, Jenkins has become Kubernetes-friendly with a plugin that allows Jenkins to spawn slaves when required in a containerized fashion so that it leverages the provisioning and destruction of hardware to Kubernetes. This is a more than interesting approach when your cluster is big enough (50+ machines), but when your cluster is small, it may be problematic as it can lead into a noisy neighborhood.
I am a big fan of segregation: CI/CD should be able to talk to your production infrastructure but should not be running in the same hardware for two reasons:
- Resource consumption
- Vulnerabilities
Think about it: a CI/CD software...
