Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Jenkins X and Importing App
Explore how to create a Kubernetes cluster with Jenkins X, focusing on selecting appropriate VM sizes and node specifications. Learn to install Jenkins X on various cloud platforms and import a sample application, setting the stage for mastering deployment strategies.
If you kept the cluster from the previous chapter, you could skip this section only if you were doubting my choice of VM sizes and make the nodes bigger than what I suggested. Otherwise, we’ll need to create a new Jenkins X cluster.
Create a new cluster and install Jenkins X
We’ve been using the same cluster specifications for a while now. No matter the hosting vendor you chose in the past, if you created the cluster using my instructions, it is based on nodes with, at most two available CPUs. We’ll ...