Migrating Jenkins to Kubernetes Broke Our Brains - Jonathan Hess & Loren Trout, SAP

Join us for Kubernetes Forums Seoul, Sydney, Bengaluru and Delhi - learn more at kubecon.io Don't miss KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 events in Amsterdam March 30 - April 2, Shanghai July 28-30 and Boston November 17-20! Learn more at kubecon.io. The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects Migrating Jenkins to Kubernetes Broke Our Brains - Jonathan Hess & Loren Trout, SAP Trying to migrate Jenkins to Kubernetes broke our brains. We migrated our Jenkins-based build system from plain VMs + Chef to Kubernetes running on VMs in our SAP corporate datacenter. Here is how we did it so that you can too. We will walk through some of the nitty-gritty details to build a Kubernetes cluster from scratch on virtual machines, walking through our open-source example repo: Provisioning the Cluster: * building a solid cluster with kubeadm * preparation of the underlying OS * how to keep the base machines clean * system and application monitoring Running Jenkins on Kubernetes safely: * our helm charts + shell scripts * sizing the pods for builds * persistent volumes and backups Additionally, we will discuss some of the lessons we discovered along the way: * What problems got solved migrating Jenkins to K8s? * Lessons for other legacy apps To Learn More: https://sched.co/GrSh