Jenkins Kubernetes Integration: Dynamic Pod Agents, Pod Templates, and In-Cluster Builds

Calendar February 22, 2026
Cicd
Intermediate
Jenkins-Kubernetes-Agents, Kubernetes-Workloads
Jenkins, Kubernetes, Cicd, Kaniko, Pod-Templates, Helm
Jenkins, Kubectl, Helm, Kaniko

Jenkins Kubernetes Integration#

The kubernetes plugin gives Jenkins elastic build capacity. Each build spins up a pod, runs its work, and the pod is deleted. No idle agents, no capacity planning, no snowflake build servers.

The Kubernetes Plugin#

The plugin creates agent pods on demand. When a pipeline requests an agent, a pod is created from a template, its JNLP container connects back to Jenkins, the build runs, and the pod is deleted.