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As adoption of containers grows, we are getting more asks around running Jenkins on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS.) To run Jenkins on a VM on Azure, you can use our solution template in Azure Marketplace. If you want to run Jenkins on AKS, I am happy to announce that you can now consider Jenkins X on AKS.
AKS is a fully managed Kubernetes container orchestration service that simplifies deployment and operation. With dynamic scaling of your application infrastructure, you get the confidence and agility you need without investing in a whole team to manage your Kubernetes cluster.
Jenkins X is a Jenkins subproject. It’s Jenkins on Kubernetes – an opinionated CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications. Jenkins X helps by giving you:
Combining the benefits of both AKS and Jenkins X, developers can truly focus on coding instead of spending time to set up their CI/CD infrastructure which could be daunting and time consuming.
jx create cluster aks
I prefer to create my AKS cluster separately so that it is easy for me to clean up after I am done.
Create an Azure resource group:
az group create -n yourResourceGroup -l yourRegion
Create a cluster with 6 nodes:
az aks create -g yourResourceGroup -n yourAKS --node-count 6
Install Jenkins X:
jx install
(select AKS as your provider)
In your Azure resource group, you should see your AKS cluster, as well as an Azure Container Registry for managing images for your application.
jx create spring -d web -d actuator
Once the git repo and webhook are created, build is triggered automatically.
You can see the build log by doing:
jx get build logs
To get the URL, run:
jx open –env staging
You will see the default Spring Boot whitelabel error page since a home page is missing.
To create an issue, run:
jx create issue -t 'add a homepage'
In VS Code,
In GitHub,
az group delete -y --no-wait -n yourResourceGroup
Jenkins X is evolving rapidly. The jx version I used to walk through the above is 1.3.933.
Try it out and give us feedback either via comment below or email us at Jenkins Azure Support. Let us know what additional Azure integrations you’d like to see in Jenkins X.