🚀 Jenkins and Kubernetes: Automating Cloud Deployments

 

Jenkins and Kubernetes: Automating Cloud Deployments

As organizations move towards cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes has become the go-to container orchestration platform. Jenkins and Kubernetes together enable automated deployments, scaling, and management of containerized applications in a CI/CD pipeline.

In this guide, we will cover:
✅ Why integrate Jenkins with Kubernetes?
✅ Setting up a Jenkins pipeline for Kubernetes
✅ Automating deployments using Jenkins and Helm

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🌍 Why Use Kubernetes with Jenkins?

Kubernetes simplifies application deployment, scaling, and management across multiple nodes. Integrating it with Jenkins brings several benefits:

✔️ Automated Deployments – Seamlessly push applications to Kubernetes clusters.
✔️ Scalability – Scale applications up or down based on demand.
✔️ Self-Healing – Kubernetes restarts failed containers automatically.
✔️ Cloud-Native Pipelines – Deploy apps across AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-prem clusters.

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🔧 Installing Jenkins on Kubernetes

Run the following command to install Jenkins on your Kubernetes cluster:

helm repo add jenkins https://charts.jenkins.io
helm repo update
helm install jenkins jenkins/jenkins

✅ This will deploy Jenkins as a pod inside Kubernetes.

To access Jenkins, run:

kubectl port-forward svc/jenkins 8080:8080 -n default

Now, open http://localhost:8080 in your browser.

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🚀 Jenkins Pipeline for Kubernetes Deployment

Navigate to Jenkins Dashboard → New Item → Pipeline and add the following script:

pipeline {
    agent any
    environment {
        KUBECONFIG = credentials('kube-config')
    }
    stages {
        stage('Checkout Code') {
            steps {
                git 'https://github.com/your-repo/k8s-app.git'
            }
        }
        stage('Build and Push Docker Image') {
            steps {
                sh 'docker build -t your-docker-username/my-app:latest .'
                sh 'docker login -u your-docker-username -p your-password'
                sh 'docker push your-docker-username/my-app:latest'
            }
        }
        stage('Deploy to Kubernetes') {
            steps {
                sh 'kubectl apply -f k8s/deployment.yaml'
                sh 'kubectl apply -f k8s/service.yaml'
            }
        }
    }
}

✅ This pipeline:
✔️ Builds a Docker image from your code.
✔️ Pushes it to Docker Hub for easy access.
✔️ Deploys the application to a Kubernetes cluster.

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