$ docker pull registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-jenkins:<v4.3.0>
OpenShift Container Platform provides a container image for running Jenkins. This image provides a Jenkins server instance, which can be used to set up a basic flow for continuous testing, integration, and delivery.
The image is based on the Red Hat Universal Base Images (UBI).
OpenShift Container Platform follows the LTS release of Jenkins. OpenShift Container Platform provides an image that contains Jenkins 2.x.
The OpenShift Container Platform Jenkins images are available on quay.io
or
registry.redhat.io
.
For example:
$ docker pull registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-jenkins:<v4.3.0>
To use these images, you can either access them directly from these registries or push them into your OpenShift Container Platform container image registry. Additionally, you can create an ImageStream that points to the image, either in your container image registry or at the external location. Your OpenShift Container Platform resources can then reference the ImageStream.
But for convenience, OpenShift Container Platform provides ImageStreams in the openshift
namespace
for the core Jenkins image as well as the example Agent images provided for OpenShift Container Platform
integration with Jenkins.
You can manage Jenkins authentication in two ways:
OpenShift Container Platform OAuth authentication provided by the OpenShift Login plug-in.
Standard authentication provided by Jenkins.
OAuth authentication is activated by configuring options on the Configure
Global Security panel in the Jenkins UI, or by setting the
OPENSHIFT_ENABLE_OAUTH
environment variable on the Jenkins Deployment
configuration to anything other than false
. This activates the OpenShift Container Platform
Login plug-in, which retrieves the configuration information from Pod data or by
interacting with the OpenShift Container Platform API server.
Valid credentials are controlled by the OpenShift Container Platform identity provider.
Jenkins supports both browser and non-browser access.
Valid users are automatically added to the Jenkins authorization matrix at log
in, where OpenShift Container Platform Roles
dictate the specific Jenkins permissions the
users have. The Roles
used by default are the predefined admin
, edit
, and view
.
The login plug-in executes self-SAR requests against those Roles
in the Project
or namespace that Jenkins is running in.
Users with the admin
role have the traditional Jenkins administrative
user permissions. Users with the edit
or view
role have progressively
fewer permissions.
The default OpenShift Container Platform admin
, edit
, and view
Roles
and the Jenkins permissions
those Roles
are assigned in the Jenkins instance are configurable.
When running Jenkins in an OpenShift Container Platform Pod
, the login plug-in looks for a ConfigMap
named openshift-jenkins-login-plugin-config
in the namespace that Jenkins is running in.
If this plugin finds and can read in that ConfigMap
, you can define the Role
to Jenkins Permission mappings. Specifically:
The login plug-in treats the key and value pairs in the ConfigMap
as Jenkins permission to OpenShift Role mappings.
The key is the Jenkins permission group short ID and the Jenkins permission short ID, with those two separated by a hyphen character.
If you want to add the Overall Jenkins Administer
permission to an OpenShift Container Platform Role
, the key should be Overall-Administer
.
To get a sense of which permission groups and permissions IDs are available, go to the matrix authorization page in the Jenkins console and IDs for the groups and individual permissions in the table they provide.
The value of the key and value pair is the list of OpenShift Container Platform Roles
the permission should apply to, with each role separated by a comma.
If you want to add the Overall Jenkins Administer
permission to both the default admin
and edit
Roles
, as well as a new jenkins role you have created, the value for the key Overall-Administer
would be admin,edit,jenkins
.
The |
Jenkins users' permissions that are stored can be changed after the users are initially established. The OpenShift Login plug-in polls the OpenShift Container Platform API server for permissions and updates the permissions stored in Jenkins for each user with the permissions retrieved from OpenShift Container Platform. If the Jenkins UI is used to update permissions for a Jenkins user, the permission changes are overwritten the next time the plug-in polls OpenShift Container Platform.
You can control how often the polling occurs with the
OPENSHIFT_PERMISSIONS_POLL_INTERVAL
environment variable. The default polling
interval is five minutes.
The easiest way to create a new Jenkins service using OAuth authentication is to use a template.
Jenkins authentication is used by default if the image is run directly, without using a template.
The first time Jenkins starts, the configuration is created along with the
administrator user and password. The default user credentials are admin
and
password
. Configure the default password by setting the JENKINS_PASSWORD
environment variable when using, and only when using, standard Jenkins
authentication.
Create a Jenkins application that uses standard Jenkins authentication:
$ oc new-app -e \ JENKINS_PASSWORD=<password> \ openshift4/ose-jenkins
The Jenkins server can be configured with the following environment variables:
Variable | Definition | Example values and settings |
---|---|---|
|
Determines whether the OpenShift Login plug-in manages authentication when
logging in to Jenkins. To enable, set to |
Default: |
|
The password for the |
Default: |
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These values control the maximum heap size of the Jenkins JVM. If
By default, the maximum heap size of the Jenkins JVM is set to 50% of the container memory limit with no cap. |
|
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These values control the initial heap size of the Jenkins JVM. If
By default, the JVM sets the initial heap size. |
|
|
If set, specifies an integer number of cores used for sizing numbers of internal JVM threads. |
Example setting: |
|
Specifies options to apply to all JVMs running in this container. It is not recommended to override this value. |
Default: |
|
Specifies Jenkins JVM garbage collection parameters. It is not recommended to override this value. |
Default: |
|
Specifies additional options for the Jenkins JVM. These options are appended to all other options, including the Java options above, and may be used to override any of them if necessary. Separate each additional option with a space; if any option contains space characters, escape them with a backslash. |
Example settings: |
|
Specifies arguments to Jenkins. |
|
|
Specifies additional Jenkins plug-ins to install when the container is first run
or when |
Example setting: |
|
Specifies the interval in milliseconds that the OpenShift Login plug-in polls OpenShift Container Platform for the permissions that are associated with each user that is defined in Jenkins. |
Default: |
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When running this image with an OpenShift Container Platform persistent volume for the Jenkins
configuration directory, the transfer of configuration from the image to the Persistent
Volume is performed only the first time the image starts because the Persistent
Volume is assigned when the Persistent Volume Claim is created. If you create a
custom image that extends this image and updates configuration in the custom image
after the initial startup, the configuration is not copied over unless you set this
environment variable to |
Default: |
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When running this image with an OpenShift Container Platform persistent volume for the Jenkins
configuration directory, the transfer of plugins from the image to the Persistent
Volume is performed only the first time the image starts because the Persistent
Volume is assigned when the Persistent Volume Claim is created. If you create a
custom image that extends this image and updates plug-ins in the custom image after
the initial startup, the plug-ins are not copied over unless you set this
environment variable to |
Default: |
|
When running this image with an OpenShift Container Platform Persistent Volume Claim for the
Jenkins configuration directory, this environment variable allows the fatal error
log file to persist when a fatal error occurs. The fatal error file is saved at
|
Default: |
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Setting this value overrides the image that is used for the default NodeJS agent
Pod configuration. A related imagestreamtag named |
Default NodeJS agent image in Jenkins server:
|
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Setting this value overrides the image used for the default maven agent Pod
configuration. A related imagestreamtag named |
Default Maven agent image in Jenkins server:
|
If you are going to run Jenkins somewhere other than your same project, you must provide an access token to Jenkins to access your project.
Identify the secret for the service account that has appropriate permissions to access the project Jenkins must access:
$ oc describe serviceaccount jenkins Name: default Labels: <none> Secrets: { jenkins-token-uyswp } { jenkins-dockercfg-xcr3d } Tokens: jenkins-token-izv1u jenkins-token-uyswp
In this case the secret is named jenkins-token-uyswp
.
Retrieve the token from the secret:
$ oc describe secret <secret name from above> Name: jenkins-token-uyswp Labels: <none> Annotations: kubernetes.io/service-account.name=jenkins,kubernetes.io/service-account.uid=32f5b661-2a8f-11e5-9528-3c970e3bf0b7 Type: kubernetes.io/service-account-token Data ==== ca.crt: 1066 bytes token: eyJhbGc..<content cut>....wRA
The token parameter contains the token value Jenkins requires to access the project.
The Jenkins image can be run with mounted volumes to enable persistent storage for the configuration:
/var/lib/jenkins
- This is the data directory where Jenkins stores
configuration files, including job definitions.
To customize the official OpenShift Container Platform Jenkins image, you can use the image as a Source-To-Image (S2I) builder.
You can use S2I to copy your custom Jenkins Jobs definitions, add additional
plug-ins, or replace the provided config.xml
file with your own, custom,
configuration.
To include your modifications in the Jenkins image, you must have a Git repository with the following directory structure:
plugins
This directory contains those binary Jenkins plug-ins you want to copy into Jenkins.
plugins.txt
This file lists the plug-ins you want to install using the following syntax:
pluginId:pluginVersion
configuration/jobs
This directory contains the Jenkins job definitions.
configuration/config.xml
This file contains your custom Jenkins configuration.
The contents of the configuration/
directory is copied
to the /var/lib/jenkins/
directory, so you can also include
additional files, such as credentials.xml
, there.
The following example build configuration customizes the Jenkins image in OpenShift Container Platform:
apiVersion: v1
kind: BuildConfig
metadata:
name: custom-jenkins-build
spec:
source: (1)
git:
uri: https://github.com/custom/repository
type: Git
strategy: (2)
sourceStrategy:
from:
kind: ImageStreamTag
name: jenkins:2
namespace: openshift
type: Source
output: (3)
to:
kind: ImageStreamTag
name: custom-jenkins:latest
1 | The source parameter defines the source Git repository
with the layout described above. |
2 | The strategy parameter defines the original Jenkins image to use
as a source image for the build. |
3 | The output parameter defines the resulting, customized Jenkins image that
you can use in deployment configurations instead of the official Jenkins image. |
The OpenShift Container Platform Jenkins image includes the pre-installed Kubernetes plug-in that allows Jenkins agents to be dynamically provisioned on multiple container hosts using Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform.
To use the Kubernetes plug-in, OpenShift Container Platform provides images that are suitable
for use as Jenkins agents: the Base
, Maven
, and Node.js
images.
Both the Maven and Node.js agent images are automatically configured as
Kubernetes Pod Template images within the OpenShift Container Platform Jenkins image’s
configuration for the Kubernetes plug-in. That configuration includes labels for
each of the images that can be applied to any of your Jenkins jobs under their
Restrict where this project can be run
setting. If the label is applied,
jobs run under an OpenShift Container Platform Pod running the
respective agent image.
The Jenkins image also provides auto-discovery and auto-configuration of additional agent images for the Kubernetes plug-in.
With the OpenShift Container Platform Sync plug-in, the Jenkins image on Jenkins start-up searches for the following within the project that it is running or the projects specifically listed in the plug-in’s configuration:
Imagestreams that have the label role
set to jenkins-slave
.
Imagestreamtags that have the annotation role
set to jenkins-slave
.
ConfigMaps that have the label role
set to jenkins-slave
.
When it finds an imagestream with the appropriate label, or imagestreamtag with the appropriate annotation, it generates the corresponding Kubernetes plug-in configuration so you can assign your Jenkins jobs to run in a Pod that runs the container image that is provided by the imagestream.
The name and image references of the imagestream or imagestreamtag are mapped
to the name and image fields in the Kubernetes plug-in Pod template. You can
control the label field of the Kubernetes plug-in Pod template by setting an
annotation on the imagestream or imagestreamtag object with the key
slave-label
. Otherwise, the name is used as the label.
Do not log in to the Jenkins console and modify the Pod Template configuration. If you do so after the Pod Template is created, and the OpenShift Sync plug-in detects that the image associated with the ImageStream or ImageStreamTag has changed, it replaces the Pod Template and overwrites those configuration changes. You cannot merge a new configuration with the existing configuration. Consider the ConfigMap approach if you have more complex configuration needs. |
When it finds a ConfigMap with the appropriate label, it assumes that any values in the key-value data payload of the ConfigMap contains XML that is consistent with the configuration format for Jenkins and the Kubernetes plug-in Pod templates. A key differentiator to note when using ConfigMaps, instead of imagestreams or imagestreamtags, is that you can control all the parameters of the Kubernetes plug-in Pod template.
Example ConfigMap for jenkins-agent
:
kind: ConfigMap
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: jenkins-agent
labels:
role: jenkins-slave
data:
template1: |-
<org.csanchez.jenkins.plugins.kubernetes.PodTemplate>
<inheritFrom></inheritFrom>
<name>template1</name>
<instanceCap>2147483647</instanceCap>
<idleMinutes>0</idleMinutes>
<label>template1</label>
<serviceAccount>jenkins</serviceAccount>
<nodeSelector></nodeSelector>
<volumes/>
<containers>
<org.csanchez.jenkins.plugins.kubernetes.ContainerTemplate>
<name>jnlp</name>
<image>openshift/jenkins-agent-maven-35-centos7:v3.10</image>
<privileged>false</privileged>
<alwaysPullImage>true</alwaysPullImage>
<workingDir>/tmp</workingDir>
<command></command>
<args>${computer.jnlpmac} ${computer.name}</args>
<ttyEnabled>false</ttyEnabled>
<resourceRequestCpu></resourceRequestCpu>
<resourceRequestMemory></resourceRequestMemory>
<resourceLimitCpu></resourceLimitCpu>
<resourceLimitMemory></resourceLimitMemory>
<envVars/>
</org.csanchez.jenkins.plugins.kubernetes.ContainerTemplate>
</containers>
<envVars/>
<annotations/>
<imagePullSecrets/>
<nodeProperties/>
</org.csanchez.jenkins.plugins.kubernetes.PodTemplate>
If you log in to the Jenkins console and make further changes to the Pod Template configuration after the Pod Template is created, and the OpenShift Sync plug-in detects that the ConfigMap has changed, it will replace the Pod Template and overwrite those configuration changes. You cannot merge a new configuration with the existing configuration. Do not log in to the Jenkins console and modify the Pod Template configuration. If you do so after the Pod Template is created, and the OpenShift Sync plug-in detects that the image associated with the ImageStream or ImageStreamTag has changed, it replaces the Pod Template and overwrites those configuration changes. You cannot merge a new configuration with the existing configuration. Consider the ConfigMap approach if you have more complex configuration needs. |
After it is installed, the OpenShift Sync plug-in monitors the API server of
OpenShift Container Platform for updates to ImageStreams
, ImageStreamTags
, and
ConfigMaps
and adjusts the configuration of the Kubernetes plug-in.
The following rules apply:
Removing the label or annotation from the ConfigMap
, ImageStream
, or
ImageStreamTag
results in the deletion of any existing PodTemplate
from
the configuration of the Kubernetes plug-in.
If those objects are removed, the corresponding configuration is removed from the Kubernetes plug-in.
Either creating appropriately labeled or annotated ConfigMap
,
ImageStream
, or ImageStreamTag
objects, or the adding of labels after their
initial creation, leads to creating of a PodTemplate
in the Kubernetes-plugin
configuration.
In the case of the PodTemplate
by ConfigMap
form, changes to the ConfigMap
data for the PodTemplate
are applied to the PodTemplate
settings in the
Kubernetes plug-in configuration and overrides any changes that were made to the
PodTemplate
through the Jenkins UI between changes to the ConfigMap
.
To use a container image as a Jenkins agent, the image must run the slave agent as an entrypoint. For more details about this, refer to the official Jenkins documentation.
If in the ConfigMap the <serviceAccount>
element of the Pod Template XML is
the OpenShift Container Platform service Account used for the resulting Pod, the service
account credentials are mounted into the Pod. The permissions are associated
with the service account and control which operations against the
OpenShift Container Platform master are allowed from the Pod.
Consider the following scenario with service accounts used for the Pod, which is launched by the Kubernetes Plug-in that runs in the OpenShift Container Platform Jenkins image:
If you use the example template for Jenkins that is provided by OpenShift Container Platform,
the jenkins
service account is defined with the edit
role for the project
Jenkins runs in, and the master Jenkins Pod has that service account
mounted.
The two default Maven and NodeJS Pod Templates that are injected into the Jenkins configuration are also set to use the same service account as the Jenkins master.
Any Pod templates that are automatically discovered by the OpenShift Sync plug-in because their imagestreams or imagestreamtags have the required label or annotations are configured to use the Jenkins master’s service account as their service account.
For the other ways you can provide a Pod Template definition into Jenkins and
the Kubernetes plug-in, you have to explicitly specify the service account to
use. Those other ways include the Jenkins console, the podTemplate
pipeline DSL
that is provided by the Kubernetes plug-in, or labeling a ConfigMap whose data
is the XML configuration for a Pod Template.
If you do not specify a value for the service account, the default
service
account is used.
Ensure that whatever service account is used has the necessary permissions, roles, and so on defined within OpenShift Container Platform to manipulate whatever projects you choose to manipulate from the within the Pod.
Templates provide parameter fields to define all the environment variables
with predefined default values. OpenShift Container Platform provides templates to make
creating a new Jenkins service easy. The Jenkins templates should be
registered in the default openshift
project by your cluster administrator
during the initial cluster setup.
The two available templates both define deployment configuration and a service. The templates differ in their storage strategy, which affects whether or not the Jenkins content persists across a Pod restart.
A Pod might be restarted when it is moved to another node or when an update of the deployment configuration triggers a redeployment. |
jenkins-ephemeral
uses ephemeral storage. On Pod restart, all data is lost.
This template is only useful for development or testing.
jenkins-persistent
uses a Persistent Volume store. Data survives a Pod
restart.
To use a Persistent Volume store, the cluster administrator must define a Persistent Volume pool in the OpenShift Container Platform deployment.
After you select which template you want, you must instantiate the template to be able to use Jenkins.
Create a new Jenkins application using one of the following methods:
A Persistent Volume:
$ oc new-app jenkins-persistent
Or an emptyDir
type volume where configuration does not persist across Pod restarts:
$ oc new-app jenkins-ephemeral
In the following example, the openshift-jee-sample
BuildConfig causes a
Jenkins Maven agent Pod to be dynamically provisioned. The Pod clones some Java
source code, builds a WAR file, and causes a second BuildConfig,
openshift-jee-sample-docker
to run. The second BuildConfig layers the new WAR
file into a container image.
The following example is a BuildConfig that uses the Jenkins Kubernetes plug-in.
kind: List
apiVersion: v1
items:
- kind: ImageStream
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: openshift-jee-sample
- kind: BuildConfig
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: openshift-jee-sample-docker
spec:
strategy:
type: Docker
source:
type: Docker
dockerfile: |-
FROM openshift/wildfly-101-centos7:latest
COPY ROOT.war /wildfly/standalone/deployments/ROOT.war
CMD $STI_SCRIPTS_PATH/run
binary:
asFile: ROOT.war
output:
to:
kind: ImageStreamTag
name: openshift-jee-sample:latest
- kind: BuildConfig
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: openshift-jee-sample
spec:
strategy:
type: JenkinsPipeline
jenkinsPipelineStrategy:
jenkinsfile: |-
node("maven") {
sh "git clone https://github.com/openshift/openshift-jee-sample.git ."
sh "mvn -B -Popenshift package"
sh "oc start-build -F openshift-jee-sample-docker --from-file=target/ROOT.war"
}
triggers:
- type: ConfigChange
It is also possible to override the specification of the dynamically created Jenkins agent Pod. The following is a modification to the previous example, which overrides the container memory and specifies an environment variable:
The following example is a BuildConfig that the Jenkins Kubernetes Plug-in, specifying memory limit and environment variable.
kind: BuildConfig
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: openshift-jee-sample
spec:
strategy:
type: JenkinsPipeline
jenkinsPipelineStrategy:
jenkinsfile: |-
podTemplate(label: "mypod", (1)
cloud: "openshift", (2)
inheritFrom: "maven", (3)
containers: [
containerTemplate(name: "jnlp", (4)
image: "openshift/jenkins-agent-maven-35-centos7:v3.10", (5)
resourceRequestMemory: "512Mi", (6)
resourceLimitMemory: "512Mi", (7)
envVars: [
envVar(key: "CONTAINER_HEAP_PERCENT", value: "0.25") (8)
])
]) {
node("mypod") { (9)
sh "git clone https://github.com/openshift/openshift-jee-sample.git ."
sh "mvn -B -Popenshift package"
sh "oc start-build -F openshift-jee-sample-docker --from-file=target/ROOT.war"
}
}
triggers:
- type: ConfigChange
1 | A new Pod template called mypod is defined dynamically. The new Pod
template name is referenced in the node stanza. |
2 | The cloud value must be set to openshift . |
3 | The new Pod template can inherit its configuration from an existing Pod template. In this case, inherited from the Maven Pod template that is pre-defined by OpenShift Container Platform. |
4 | This example overrides values in the pre-existing Container, and must be
specified by name. All Jenkins agent images shipped with OpenShift Container Platform use
the Container name jnlp . |
5 | Specify the Container image name again. This is a known issue. |
6 | A memory request of 512 Mi is specified. |
7 | A memory limit of 512 Mi is specified. |
8 | An environment variable CONTAINER_HEAP_PERCENT , with value 0.25 , is
specified. |
9 | The node stanza references the name of the defined Pod template. |
By default, the pod is deleted when the build completes. This behavior can be modified with the plug-in or within a pipeline Jenkinsfile.
When deployed by the provided Jenkins Ephemeral or Jenkins Persistent
templates, the default memory limit is 1 Gi
.
By default, all other process that run in the Jenkins container cannot use more
than a total of 512 MiB
of memory. If they require more memory, the container
halts. It is therefore highly recommended that pipelines run external commands
in an agent container wherever possible.
And if Project
quotas allow for it, see recommendations from the Jenkins
documentation on what a Jenkins master should have from a memory perspective.
Those recommendations proscribe to allocate even more memory for the Jenkins master.
It is recommended to specify memory request and limit values on agent containers created by the Jenkins Kubernetes Plug-in. Admin users can set default values on a per-agent image basis through the Jenkins configuration. The memory request and limit parameters can also be overridden on a per-container basis.
You can increase the amount of memory available to Jenkins by overriding
the MEMORY_LIMIT
parameter when instantiating the Jenkins Ephemeral or
Jenkins Persistent template.
See Base image options for more information on the Red Hat Universal Base Images (UBI).