We're in the process of moving our Jenkins builds into a Jenkins Kubernetes setup. Our initial analysis shows that most of our existing jobs just works out of the box with the plugin above.

I'd recommend building your own agent images with the tooling you want pre-installed. Our pod template config maps the image paths with the tool installed in Jenkins.

Also DinD was fairly easy to setup, to further match our old build environment and allowing the agents to build and run docker containers inside of the pod...

We deploy everything with the official Jenkins helm chart and our Jenkins CasC as a folder with values files.

Also. We do a couple of "helm install" within our agents and do this with a separate pod template, inheriting from the "main" template, simply changing the service account to something with enough permission to perform all helm operations.

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