Scalable Jenkins on Kubernetes with Kaniko

Jenkins is the most popular CI tool available in the market. It is open source, simple to install, and runs with ease. It is a Java-based tool with a plugin-based architecture designed to support several integrations, such as with a source code management tool such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial, or with popular artifact repositories such as Nexus and Artifactory. It also integrates well with well-known build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle, aside from the standard shell scripting and windows batch file executions.

Jenkins follows a master-agent model. Though technically, you can run all your builds on the master machine itself, it makes sense to offload your CI builds to other machines in your network so as to have a distributed architecture. That does not overload your master machine. You can use it simply to store the build configurations and other management data and manage the entire CI Build cluster, something along the lines of...