In my last post, Jenkins X — Managing Jenkins, I talked about how we manage our Jenkins server. This time around, I’ll be looking at the Nexus server and how it too can be similarly managed.

Current Status

Jenkins X comes with an optional Nexus server packaged into the platform which is great to get you started. However, as your project becomes more complex, you might find yourself needing other repositories or changes to the configuration. It is these changes which proved a little difficult to manage. Here is the setup as of today:

• current Jenkins X nexus chart hard-codes the pre-packaged…

Welcome back to my mini-series on Jenkins X. In the last post I discussed how to enable TLS in your preview environments. This time around we will be discussing the Jenkins server and how we, here at Datameer, manage changes and updates to both jobs and configuration.

I’ll admit, it has taken me a little too long to write this post. Mostly because there are so many aspects and angles to it that I couldn’t decide on the right structure, often swapping out huge chunks of information, only to swap them back again half an hour later. …

Welcome back to the mini-series on Jenkins X. This section will be dedicated to setting up wildcard certificates and TLS for preview environments.

In my earlier post I discussed how to secure both:

• the GKE cluster (using authorised network access and dedicated IP ranges for worker nodes, pods, and services)
• the Jenkins X default services (adding ssl certificates and an IP whitelist for access)

That done, it was time to look at adding TLS to the dynamic preview environments Jenkins X provides.

Big thanks to Pablo Loschi at this point for his original Story on Using wildcard certificates with cert-manager…

Jenkins X is a great tool for quickly creating CI/CD pipelines on Kubernetes. However, the convenience of being able to set things so quickly also came with a couple of downsides. In a series of posts, I’ll discuss these and offer my take on how we solved some of them.

Before we start, I’d like to give a quick shout out to Ilya Shaisultanov, my counterpart across the water. Having colleagues like him make adventures such as these so much more enjoyable :-).

When creating the initial CI/CD infrastructure for Datameer, our big-data analytics company, we started out with the…