some tutorials on Jenkins Pipelines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GsvomI4CCQ very pragmatic Simplilearn tutorial,

you can practice on https://www.katacoda.com/courses/jenkins/build-docker-images which gives you a dockerized Jenkins with console



Awesome power-jenkins tip-pack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BIry0cepz4 :

- run Jenkins in Docker (jenkins/jenkins)

- select plugins you want to use (use plugins.txt to predefine a list of plugins)

- use agents, with swarm plugin to register, automate the agent provisioning and make them ephemeral

- don't use Maven jobs, because it's not reproduceable

- use pipelines, with Jenkinsfile (pipeline/stages/stage/steps)

- in pipelines, do all work on agents ("agent any")

- user input stage should be run on master, to avoid blocking executors ("agent none")

- limit number of stages

- don't change $env variable, use withEnv(["hello=world"]) instead

- parameters (?)

- use parallelism, for end to end tests , and performance tests and in separate nodes

- "scripted" is groovish for power user, declarative is ok for regular user

- pipelines should be small, they are orchestration tools... do the heavy stuff fin shell scripts which are easier to test

- in a pipeline everything is serializable so it can be resumed on failure (continuation-passing style)... but some classes are not serializable like groovy.text.StreamingTemplateEngine, then you have to wrap it

- BlueOcean plugin, with Editor for declarative pipelines

- use shared libraries in pipelines to reuse code, also reuse files

- use views to show only the jobs you are interested in

- BuildMonitor plugin to view jobs

- API in JSON or XML

- to-have plugins: BuildMonitor, Job Config History (to version freestyle jobs), Job DSL, Throttle Concurrent Builds, Timestamper, Version Number plugin & Build-name-setter

Kubernetes academy

https://kubernetes.academy/lessons/introduction-to-kubectl awesome productivity tips from John Harris

source < (kubectl completion bash)

kubectx

kubens

kube-ps1 + kubeon

#doc on a k8s object
kubectl explain pod.spec.containers.ports

#grep json
kubectl get pod -n kube-system kube-scheduler-master -ojson | jq .metadata.labels

#show custom columns
kubectl get pod -n kube-system kube-scheduler-master -o custom-columns=NAME:.metadata.name,NS:.metadata.namespace


#show labels

kubectl get pod -n kube-system --show-labels

#show column with value of given label

kubectl get pod -n kube-system -L k8s-app

#filter by label value

kubectl get pod -n kube-system -l k8s-app=kube-dns -L k8s-app

#sort by

get pod -n kube-system -l k8s-app=kube-dns --sort-by='{.status.containerStatuses[*].restartCount}'

#trace execution (very verbose)

get pod -n kube-system -l k8s-app=kube-dns --sort-by='{.status.containerStatuses[*].restartCount}' -v10

https://kubernetes.academy/lessons/introduction-to-ingress

awesome Kubernetes Best Practices videos

there is a whole series, all same good