Deploying Stateful Applications without Persisting State

We’ll start the exploration by deploying a stateful application without any mechanism to persist its state. That will give us a better insight into the benefits of some of the Kubernetes concepts and resources we’ll use in this chapter.

Deploying Jenkins

We have already deployed Jenkins a few times. Since it is a stateful application, it is an excellent candidate to serve as a playground.

Looking into the definition

Let’s look at a definition stored in the pv/jenkins-no-pv.yml file: