OpenShift CI/CD Operations - Collocated Persistent Jenkins Set Up

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• OpenShift CI/CD Concepts

Overview

This is the procedure to deploy a persistent Jenkins instance in the same project as the application that intends to use it, and configure it to build and deploy the application.

Pre-Requisites

Create the project to host the Jenkins instance and the application instance:

oc new-project os3-jenkins-example

Provision a 2Gi persistent volume to be used by Jenkins.

Verify that the persistent Jenkins template is available.

 oc get template/jenkins-persistent -n openshift

Deploy Persistent Jenkins

oc new-app -p VOLUME_CAPACITY=2Gi jenkins-persistent

By default, the template enables OAuth integration.

After the deployment completes, you should be left with a Jenkins pod that can be accessed with the public URL https://jenkins-os3-jenkins-example.apps.openshift.novaordis.io, using OpenShift credentials, since OAuth integration is supposed to be active.

The installation procedure should have created a "system:serviceaccount:os3-jenkins-example:jenkins" service account and given it the "edit" role. Jenkins will authenticate as "system:serviceaccount:os3-jenkins-example:jenkins" to the OpenShift master and will need these permissions to perform its functions. For more security details, see OpenShift CI/CD Security Considerations.

Various configuration adjustments can be performed after installation:

Adjust Readiness Probe Timeout

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

The same effect can be achieved with

oc edit dc/jenkins

and changing spec/template/spec/containers/name=jenkins/livenessProbe/initialDelaySeconds

Adjust Memory

oc set resources dc/jenkins --limits=memory=3Gi

Deploy a Sample Application

This is a standard node.js HelloWorld OpenShift example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/origin/master/examples/jenkins/application-template.json

If can be downloaded locally, inspected, edited, and then instantiated:

oc new-app -f ./application-template.json

Without additional configuration, the application will create all OpenShift objects required to do a source-to-image build and to deploy and expose the final artifact as https://nodejs-helloworld-sample-os3-jenkins-example.apps.openshift.novaordis.io. However, neither the build nor the deployment start automatically, as the application "expects" its release procedure to be driven by Jenkins.

Configure a Jenkins Project

New Item -> Freestyle project -> "os3-jenkins-example" -> Save.

Source Code Management: None.

Build:

• Scale OpenShift Deployment:

Then name of the DeploymentConfig to scale: frontend

The number of replicas to scale the deployment to: 0

Verify whether the specified number of replicas are up: No