JenkinsConfigAsCode

Create jenkins instance with required plugins installed and configurations updated and ready to go

Dockerfile

Contains instruction to build docker image with plugins installed and apply config yaml using to configure global configurations

config.yaml

Contains configurations to be updated in Jenkins instance. Used by jenkins configuration as code plugin. Also creates the pipeline job using DSL

plugins.txt

Contains list of plugins to be installed

BuildPipelineDSL

Job DSL for creating pipeline job.

build docker image

docker build -t jenkins:myjenkins .

create kubernetes deployment (add env variable in yaml later)

kubectl create deployment myjenkins --image=jenkins:myjenkins

direnty run image in docker

docker run --name jenkins --rm -p 8080:8080 --env JENKINS_ADMIN_ID=admin --env JENKINS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password jenkins:myjenkins

Operational Consideration

For operational stabilty its good to run jenkins with multiple master nodes. And have agents asssigned dyamically running in containerized environment.