OpenShift CI/CD Operations

Internal

• OpenShift Operations
• Jenkins and OpenShift

Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline

Set Up a Project-Collocated jenkins-persistent-Based Jenkins

Set Up a Standalone, cicd-template.yaml-Based Jenkins

Set Up a Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline

Create Required 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="Tasks - Dev"

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

oc new-project stage --display-name="Tasks - Stage"

Grant Jenkins Needed Privileges for the Projects that Require CI/CD Services

For reasons behind these actions, see:

Jenkins and OpenShift - Security Considerations

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

Create the CI/CD Components

oc project cicd

oc process -f ./cicd-template.yaml --param DEV_PROJECT=dev --param STAGE_PROJECT=stage \
| oc create -f - 

A template example for OpenShift 3.5 is available at https://github.com/OpenShiftDemos/openshift-cd-demo/blob/ocp-3.5/cicd-template.yaml. A version is also available here: OpenShift CICD Template Example.

Note that "jenkins-persistent" and "jenkins-ephemeral" are available templates in the "openshift" project, they probably can be also used:

oc get templates -n openshift | grep jenkins

Configure Jenkins

oc project cicd
oc set resources dc/jenkins --limits=memory=1Gi

Checkpoint

• Jenkins should start and be available at https://jenkins-cicd.apps.openshift.novaordis.io/
• Gogs should start and be available at https://gogs-cicd.apps.openshift.novaordis.io/
• Nexus should start and be available at https://nexus-cicd.apps.openshift.novaordis.io/

Configure the Jenkins Pipeline

New Item -> "hello-nodejs-pipeline" -> Pipeline -> OK

Pipeline -> Definition -> Pipeline script:

node {
  stage ("Build") {
    echo '*** Build Starting ***'
    openshiftBuild apiURL: 'https://openshift.default.svc.cluster.local', authToken: '', bldCfg: 'hello-nodejs', buildName: '', checkForTriggeredDeployments: 'false', commitID: '', namespace: '', showBuildLogs: 'false', verbose: 'false', waitTime: ''
    openshiftVerifyBuild apiURL: 'https://openshift.default.svc.cluster.local', authToken: '', bldCfg: 'hello-nodejs', checkForTriggeredDeployments: 'false', namespace: '', verbose: 'false'
    echo '*** Build Complete ***'
  }
  stage ("Deploy") {
    echo '*** Deployment Starting ***'
    openshiftDeploy apiURL: 'https://openshift.default.svc.cluster.local', authToken: '', depCfg: 'hello-nodejs', namespace: '', verbose: 'false', waitTime: ''
    openshiftVerifyDeployment apiURL: 'https://openshift.default.svc.cluster.local', authToken: '', depCfg: 'hello-nodejs', namespace: '', replicaCount: '1', verbose: 'false', verifyReplicaCount: 'false', waitTime: ''
    echo '*** Deployment Complete ***'
  }
  stage ("Verify") {
    echo '*** Service Verification Starting ***'
    openshiftVerifyService apiURL: 'https://openshift.default.svc.cluster.local', authToken: '', namespace: '', svcName: 'hello-nodejs', verbose: 'false'
    echo '*** Service Verification Complete ***'
  }
}