CI/CD Infrastructure Setup

Internal

• OpenShift CI/CD Operations

Overview

This is the procedure to install a CI/CD pipeline based on Jenkins. The CI/CD pipeline will execute in a separate project from the projects that need CI/CD services, named "CICD".

The deployment is based on https://github.com/OpenShiftDemos/openshift-cd-demo/blob/ocp-3.5/cicd-template.yaml (or newer).

A special special service account ("system:serviceaccount:CICD:jenkins") will be created for Jenkins.

Create Required Image Streams

Create an Image Stream

Create Projects

Create the following projects:

1. A project for the CI/CD components, named "CICD":

oc new-project CICD --display-name="CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins"

2. A project to host development-stage containers and processes, named "dev":

oc new-project dev --display-name="Test Development Project"

3. A project to host publicly-accessible application produced by the CI/CD pipeline, named "stage":

oc new-project stage --display-name="Test Stage Project"

Grant Required Permissions

Jenkins components need to access the OpenShift API, so the service account that will run the Jenkins pod ("system:serviceaccount:CICD:jenkins") must be given appropriate permissions for the projects it must service:

oc policy add-role-to-user admin system:serviceaccount:CICD:jenkins

oc policy add-role-to-user edit system:serviceaccount:CICD:jenkins -n dev
oc policy add-role-to-user edit system:serviceaccount:CICD:jenkins -n stage

More details about Jenkins security considerations:

Jenkins Security Considerations

Provision a Persistent Volume

"jenkins-persistent" requires a persistent volume, which must be provisioned before the installation.

Persistent Volume Operations

Deploy Jenkins

https://github.com/openshift/origin/blob/master/examples/jenkins/README.md

Jenkins instance won't be integrated into the OAuth infrastructure, so authentication must be done independently (admin/password).

Make sure to specify a volume capacity in sync with the capacity of the persistent volume that was provisioned for Jenkins.

oc new-app jenkins-persistent -p MEMORY_LIMIT=2Gi -p VOLUME_CAPACITY=2Gi -p ENABLE_OAUTH=false

Successful run output:

--> Deploying template "openshift/jenkins-persistent" to project lab-nodejs

     Jenkins (Persistent)
     ---------
     Jenkins service, with persistent storage.

     NOTE: You must have persistent volumes available in your cluster to use this template.

     A Jenkins service has been created in your project.  Log into Jenkins with your OpenShift account.  The tutorial at https://github.com/openshift/origin/blob/master/examples/jenkins/README.md contains more information about using this template.

     * With parameters:
        * Jenkins Service Name=jenkins
        * Jenkins JNLP Service Name=jenkins-jnlp
        * Enable OAuth in Jenkins=false
        * Jenkins JVM Architecture=i386
        * Memory Limit=2Gi
        * Volume Capacity=2Gi
        * Jenkins ImageStream Namespace=openshift
        * Jenkins ImageStreamTag=jenkins:latest

--> Creating resources ...
    route "jenkins" created
    persistentvolumeclaim "jenkins" created
    deploymentconfig "jenkins" created
    serviceaccount "jenkins" created
    rolebinding "jenkins_edit" created
    service "jenkins-jnlp" created
    service "jenkins" created
--> Success
    Run 'oc status' to view your app.

Post-Install Adjustments

Adjust Readiness Probe Timeout

 oc set probe dc jenkins --readiness --initial-delay-seconds=500

Configure the Jenkins Pipeline

Configure the Jenkins Pipeline