Can I tear down and build Jenkins Cluster as Infrastructure as Code?

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SK

Staff DevOps, Site Reliability Engineer at 247.ai

Can I tear down and build Jenkins Cluster as Infrastructure as Code?

Asked almost 6 years ago

I would like to have a Jenkins cluster configuration (with all plugin details & more) checked into git as code and a click of button should bring up the cluster. What are the options?

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Brian C. · Answer 1 · 2020-03-25T00:07:27-05:00

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Brian C.

DevOps/SRE at Loanpal

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Answered over 5 years ago

Yes it is completely possible. There are several ways to do it. My recommended way is to install CloudBees Jenkins core in a kubernetes cluster. The alternatives are to use a combination of terraform and packer to configure the infrastructure and build a VM image for deployment. Once an image is created with packer and configured the way you like using the jenkins cli (https://medium.com/@shahmaulikn/install-jenkins-plugins-using-command-line-interface-8df0d0eed349) you can deploy and further configure the cluster with terraform and chef.

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Siraj M. · Answer 2 · 2019-09-04T06:23:45-05:00

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Siraj M.

Lead Consultant (DevOps) at Infosys

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Answered almost 6 years ago

I think you can do it via tools like Chef / puppet, but building full cluster from the scratch may take significant time. Another option can be to dockerize the full solution. Option 3 can be keeping the Jenkins Server up all the time and load Slaves on demand (provide by clouds like Docker / Kubernetes / AWS etc. )

Can I tear down and build Jenkins Cluster as Infrastructure as Code?

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