How to Setup Jenkins X on Oracle Container Engine

Abstract

This setup guide will help to setup jenkins-x on an OKE cluster.

Prereqs

• Install the OCI CLI
• Configure the oci profile config file
• Install kubectl
• install jenkins-x

Step 1

• deploy vcn and resources in OCI
  • use the network module for a template of how to configure 2 load balancer subnets and 3 public worker subnet with appropriate security list
  • docs on how to configure your vcn for OKE

Step 2 Deploy new cluster in OCI

• Create a new oke cluster with jenkins x installed
  • the regional container engine for kubernetes rest endpoint
  • to find the ocid of the vcn, compartment, load balancer and worker subnets refer to the oci console

jx create cluster oke \
--name="c2-oke-hcbc" \
--docker-registry="iad.ocir.io/<tenancy-name>" \
--compartmentId="<compartment-ocid>" \
--serviceLbSubnetIds="<loadbalancer1-ocid>,<loadbalancer2-ocid>" \
--endpoint="https://containerengine.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com" \
--vcnId="<vcn-ocid>" \
--sshPublicKey="<content-of-public-ssh-key>" \
--nodePoolSubnetIds="<worker-node-subnet-ocid>" \

• follow the prompt to choose the latest kubernetes version, image versions, and instance shapes that you want

Setup 3 Download kubeconfig file

• click the access kubectl button on the oke page to download the kubectl config mkdir -p $HOME/.kube ``` oci ce cluster create-kubeconfig –cluster-id –file $HOME/.kube/config –region us-ashburn-1

## Setup Change to jx ns

jx ns jx

## Step 4 Create a docker authentication token
- create docker auth
    - for the secret value you create an auth token for the user in the tenancy

jx create docker auth –host “iad.ocir.io” –secret “” –email “” –user “/“

## Step 5 Deploy an application on Jenkins X
- create application

jx create quickstart -l go ```