When cloning/fetching a Git repository in a Jenkins pipeline, the Git
Client plugin uses the configured *Host Key Verification Strategy* to
verify the SSH host key of the remote Git server. Unfortunately, there
does not seem to be any way to use the configured strategy from the
`git` command line in a Pipeline job, so e.g. `git push` does not
respect it. This causes jobs to fail to push changes to the remote if
the container they're using does not already have the SSH host key for
the remote in its known hosts database.
This commit adds a ConfigMap to the *jenkins-jobs* namespace that can be
mounted in containers to populate the SSH host key database.
I don't want Jenkins updating itself whenever the pod restarts, so I'm
going to pin it to a specific version. This way, I can be sure to take
a snapshot of the data volume before upgrading.
Setting a static SELinux level for the container allows CRI-O to skip
relabeling all the files in the persistent volume each time the
container starts. For this to work, the pod needs a special annotation,
and CRI-O itself has to be configured to respect it:
```toml
[crio.runtime.runtimes.runc]
allowed_annotations = ["io.kubernetes.cri-o.TrySkipVolumeSELinuxLabel"]
```
This *dramatically* improves the start time of the Jenkins container.
Instead of taking 5+ minutes, it now starts instantly.
https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/issues/6185#issuecomment-1334719982
Running Jenkins in Kubernetes is relatively straightforward. The
Kubernetes plugin automatically discovers all the connection and
authentication configuration, so a `kubeconfig` file is no longer
necessary. I did set the *Jenkins tunnel* option, though, so that
agents will connect directly to the Jenkins JNLP port instead of going
through the ingress controller.
Jobs now run in pods in the *jenkins-job* namespace instead of the
*jenkins* namespace. The latter is now where the Jenkins controller
runs, and the controller should not have permission to modify its own
resources.
Jenkins doesn't really need full control of all resources in its
namespace. Rather, it only needs to be able to manage Pod and
PersistentVolumeClaim resources.
Dustin