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Jenkins on k8s - can it be this easy?

 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