Building Docker Images in Jenkins on Kubernetes

Tue, 05 May 2020 12:00:00 +0300

This is a fourth post in a series, describing the problems my team has faced during implementation of Jenkins pipelines in Kubernetes.

Jenkins Java Centric Pipelines in Kubernetes
Building Maven Projects in Jenkins Docker workers
Using Maven and Jenkins to perform modular Java builds
Building Docker Images in Jenkins on Kubernetes (This article)

Why would we want to build Docker images in Kubernetes

Often Kubernetes is the platform of choice both for the production environments and the CI(/CD) pipelines that we use for our development processes.
Since Docker images are the basic building blocks, we must be able to build them from within our Kubernetes hosted pipeline.

Jenkins Java Centric Pipelines in Kubernetes

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0300

This is a first post in a series, describing the problems my team has faced during implementation of Jenkins pipelines in Kubernetes.

Jenkins Java Centric Pipelines in Kubernetes (This article)
Building Maven Projects in Jenkins Docker workers
Using Maven and Jenkins to perform modular Java builds
Building Docker Images in Jenkins on Kubernetes

When I took this project, I’ve read a considerable number of guides and documentation pages, some of them official, others written by bloggers like me. The common theme was to show a single aspect of the project. This approach simplifies the effort to explain the solution, however ignores the biggest challenge: combining the various solutions together.

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Building Docker Images in Jenkins on Kubernetes

Why would we want to build Docker images in Kubernetes

Jenkins Java Centric Pipelines in Kubernetes