Jenkins on IBM Cloud

Click the Catalog button on the top

Select Service from the catalog

Search for Kubernetes Service and click on it

You are now at the Kubernetes deployment page, you need to specify some details about the cluster

Choose a plan standard or free, the free plan only has one worker node and no subnet, to provision a standard cluster, you will need to upgrade your account to Pay-As-You-Go

Choose classic or VPC, read the docs and choose the most suitable type for yourself

Now choose your location settings, for more information please visit Locations

Choose Single or Multizone, in single zone your data is only kept in on datacenter, on the other hand with Multizone it is distributed to multiple zones, thus safer in an unforeseen zone failure

Choose a Worker Zone if using Single zones or Metro if Multizone

If you wish to use Multizone please set up your account with VRF or enable Vlan spanning

Choose a Worker node setup or use the preselected one, set Worker node amount per zone

Choose Master Service Endpoint, In VRF-enabled accounts, you can choose private-only to make your controller accessible on the private network or via VPN tunnel. Choose public-only to make your controléer publicly accessible. When you have a VRF-enabled account, your cluster is set up by default to use both private and public endpoints. For more information visit endpoints.

Give cluster a name

Give desired tags to your cluster, for more information visit tags

Click create

Wait for your cluster to be provisioned

Your cluster is ready for usage

Click the Catalog button on the top

Select Software from the catalog

Search for IBM Cloud Block Storage plug-in and click on it

On the application page Click in the dot next to the cluster, you wish to use

Click on Enter or Select Namespace and choose the default Namespace or use a custom one (if you get error please wait 30 minutes for the cluster to finalize)

Give a name to this workspace

Click install and wait for the deployment

Click the Catalog button on the top

Select Software from the catalog

Search for Jenkins and click on it

Please select IBM Kubernetes Service

On the application page Click in the dot next to the cluster, you wish to use

Click on Enter or Select Namespace and choose the default Namespace or use a custom one

Give a unique name to workspace, which you can easily recognize

Select which resource group you want to use, it’s for access controland billing purposes. For more information please visit resource groups

Give tags to your Jenkins, for more information visit [tags]

Click on Parameters with default values, You can set deployment values or use the default ones

Please set the jenkins password in the parameters

After finishing everything, tick the box next to the agreements and click install

The Jenkins workspace will start installing, wait a couple of minutes

Your Jenkins workspace has been successfully deployed

Go to Resources in your browser

Click on Clusters

Click on your Cluster

Now you are at you clusters overview, here Click on Actions and Web terminal from the dropdown menu

Click install - wait couple of minutes

Click on Actions

Click Web terminal -→ a terminal will open up

Type in the terminal, please change NAMESPACE to the namespace you choose at the deployment setup:

Running Jenkins service will be visible

Copy the External ip, you can access the website on this IP

Paste it into your browser

Jenkins login portal will be visible

Please enter your Username ( default is user) and your password which you set at the deployment phase