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 As developers or devops we have had a somewhat love and hate relationship with Jenkins like "love oss based ci/cd that can be hosted on any environment with ranges of community plugins for pretty much anything" BUT "hate messy UI, lack of documentations, difficult to configure" etc etc. But this post isn't about pros and cons of Jenkins, rather it is about how you can get Jenkins on your k8s super quick and easy (using Merlin). Git Repo:  https://github.com/alinahid477/jenkinsonk8s Table of contents: Why Jenkins Why Merlin for Jenkins What is Merlin for Jenkins How Merlin for Jenkins works How Jenkins on k8s work Some anticipated FAQs Why Jenkins Jenkins remains a popular choice when it comes to CICD solution with a massive community of users and contributors (despite the fact there are new cool kids in block like Tekton etc). The way I see it (because of our love and hate relationship with it) "Jenkins is not CICD tool that you want it's the CICD t

We know SSH'ing and probably many knows about SSH tunnel. The way, in my opinion, these 2 (SSH and SSH tunnel) are different to me (and I am in favor of SSH Tunnel) is how I use it. From tooling perspective I would almost always do tunnel instead of direct ssh.  In this post I will describe how to do SSH tunnel for kubectl to interact with remote kubernetes cluster (Specifically Tanzu Kubernetes Grid aka TKG cluster). Get the project ready to go from my github:  https://github.com/alinahid477/vsphere-with-tanzu-wizard Topics Backstory SSH tunnel for TKG Clusters using Docker container Technical stuff: Tunnel through Bastion for TKG K8s cluster Technical stuff: SSH Tunnel for Kubectl for remote K8s Clusters (same with or without docker) Technical stuff: Explain me this A famous quote from Darth Vader himself: "Feel the power of SSH Tunnel" Backstory Why ssh or ssh tunnel? The below diagram shows in what scenario a SSH or SSH Tunnel almost becomes a necessity. Let's st

Kubernetes (“koo-burr-NET-eez”) /κυβερνήτης/ - Can be used as noun or verb. Noun "helmsman" or "pilot" or "Orchestrator". We use Kubernetes to achieve resiliency for our application. Verb Perform the act of doing Kubernetes. When done using TKG it is easy but can be super hard if the right tool is not used. Do you even Kubernetes? If I were to survey about how many people in IT industry (regardless of role) knows or at least heard about Kubernetes I would be very surprised if the percentage came out any less than at least 80%. I am curious though, How many people have actually deployed on Kubernetes? How many people have created a Kubernetes cluster? How? The answer could go either way of "Yeah, it's easy" OR "Dude!! it's hard". This is because, in my opinion, it all depends on choosing the right toolset that are fit for purpose. In this post I will create a Kubernetes cluster and deploy a microservice application End-To-End, th