Environment Variables

Many configurations can be introduced via container environment variables. Below are some examples:

JVM specific environment variables

The Operator sets default JAVA_OPTS for the Jenkins container:

- XX:MinRAMPercentage=50.0 
- XX:MaxRAMPercentage=80.0 
- Djenkins.install.runSetupWizard=false 
- Djava.awt.headless=true

They are only used if the user doesn’t specify any other JAVA_OPTS. If you want to use your custom JAVA_OPTS, these won’t be applied.

Jenkins specific environment variables

You can also pass environment variables to Jenkins, but be careful, you may need to set the same variables in JenkinsKubernetesAgent Custom Resources.

apiVersion: operator-service.com/v1beta1
kind: Jenkins
metadata:
  name: example
spec:
  podSpec:
    containers:
      - name: jenkins-controller
        env:
          - name: JENKINS_OPTS
            value: --prefix=/jenkins
apiVersion: operator-service.com/v1beta1
kind: JenkinsKubernetesAgent
metadata:
  name: operator-agent
labels:
  operator-service.com/jenkins: example
spec:
  podSpec:
    containers:
      - name: jnlp
        env:
          - name: JENKINS_OPTS
            value: --prefix=/jenkins

HTTP Proxy for downloading plugins

To use forwarding proxy with an operator to download plugins you need to add the following environment variable to Jenkins Custom Resource, e.g.:

apiVersion: operator-service.com/v1beta1
kind: Jenkins
metadata:
  name: example
spec:
  podSpec:
    containers:
      - name: jenkins-controller
        env:
          - name: CURL_OPTIONS
            value: -L -x <proxy_url>

In CURL_OPTIONS var you can set additional arguments to curl command.