Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

Now we start to configure Jenkins to build your application. However, to access the WebUI of your custom Jenkins, you need to access the Kubernetes service that binds to your Jenkins pod. It is easier to use kubectl port-forward to access remotely to configure Jenkins:

//check pod name$ kubectl get podsNAME                         READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGEmy-jenkins-cbdd6446d-ttxj5   1/1       Running   0          1m//port forward from your machine :58080 to Jenkins :8080$ kubectl port-forward my-jenkins-cbdd6446d-ttxj5 58080:8080Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:58080 -> 8080

The initial configuration of Jenkins is done via the following steps:

1. Access the http://127.0.0.1:58080 Jenkins WebUI; it asks you to input initialAdminPassword.
2. Use kubectl exec to acquire the initialAdminPassword ...