Jenkins service always pending on minikube

jenkins, kubernetes, minikube

Solution

I'm guessing that you didn't update the parameters to use `NodePort` instead of the default `LoadBalancer`. The minikube cluster doesn't support the `LoadBalancer` type so Kubernetes is looping trying to create a load balancer to get an external IP.

Use helm to see the options for the stable/jenkins chart:

$ helm inspect values stable/jenkins
# Default values for jenkins.
...
# For minikube, set this to NodePort, elsewhere use LoadBalancer
# Use ClusterIP if your setup includes ingress controller
  ServiceType: LoadBalancer
...

You can set this by doing something like this:

$ echo $'Master:\n  ServiceType: NodePort' > config.yaml
$ helm install -f config.yaml stable/jenkins

Problem

I installed `minikube` on local. Dashboard is 192.168.99.100:30000 I installed Jenkins by helm: ``` $ helm install stable/jenkins ``` Then the service always pending: ``` $ kubectl get services --namespace=default -w wandering-buffoon-jenkins NAME CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE wandering-buffoon-jenkins 10.0.0.153 <pending> 8080:31326/TCP,50000:31090/TCP 26m ``` Why? So can't use external-ip to access it.

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