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Build Docker images without Docker using Img and Jenkins on Kubernetes

Monday, Aug 12, 2019 by Prabhat Sharma kubernetes, CICD, Jenkins

Note: I will be using an Amazon EKS cluster on AWS and using Amazon ECR for storing images. There will be minor differences for handling other repositories. In the earlier post we learnt on how to to build a docker image using kubernete plugin in Jenkins on Kuberenetes. In this post we will look at how to build a docker image using Img. We will follow the same steps as the earlier post but will have a different pipeline script.

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Build Docker images without Docker - using Kaniko, Jenkins and Kubernetes

Thursday, Aug 8, 2019 by Prabhat Sharma kubernetes, containers, docker, kaniko, jenkins, CICD

Note: I will be using an Amazon EKS cluster on AWS and using Amazon ECR for storing images. There will be minor differences for handling other repositories. Jenkins is a hugely popular build tool that has been around for ages and used by many people. With huge shift to Kubernetes as a platform you would naturally want to run jenkins on Kubernetes. While running Jenkins in itself on Kubernetes is not a challenge, it is a challenge when you want to build a container image using jenkins that itself runs in a container in the Kubernetes cluster.

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Installing Jenkins on Kubernetes

Thursday, Aug 8, 2019 by Prabhat Sharma kubernetes, containers, docker, jenkins, CICD

In this post I will cover the steps to install Jenkins in a Kubernetes cluster. While Jenkins can be installed on standard VMs, if you are running a Kubernetes cluster then its much easier to install and run Jenkins in it. We will be using Helm to install Jenkins. We will follow the below steps to get up and running: Get the Jenkins values file for configuring our Jenkins installation Install Jenkins Access Jenkins Let’s rock ’n’ roll:

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