kubernetes-operator/README.md

# Jenkins Operator

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## What's Jenkins Operator?

Jenkins operator is a Kubernetes native operator which fully manages Jenkins on Kubernetes.
It was built with immutability and declarative configuration as code in mind.

Out of the box it provides:
- integration with Kubernetes
- pipelines as code
- extensibility via groovy scripts or configuration as code plugin
- security and hardening

## Problem statement and goals

The main reason why we decided to write the **jenkins-operator** is the fact that we faced a lot of problems with standard Jenkins deployment.
We want to make Jenkins more robust, suitable for dynamic and multi-tenant environments. 

Some of the problems we want to solve:
- volumes handling (AWS EBS volume attach/detach issue when using PVC)
- installing plugins with incompatible versions or security vulnerabilities
- better configuration as code
- lack of end to end tests
- handle graceful shutdown properly
- security and hardening out of the box
- orphaned jobs with no jnlp connection
- make errors more visible for end users
- backup and restore for jobs history

## Documentation

1. [Installation][installation]
2. [Getting Started][getting_started]
3. [How it works][how_it_works]
4. [Security][security]
5. [Developer Guide][developer_guide]

## Contribution

Feel free to file [issues](https://github.com/jenkinsci/kubernetes-operator/issues) or [pull requests](https://github.com/jenkinsci/kubernetes-operator/pulls).    

## About the authors

This project was originally developed by [VirtusLab](https://virtuslab.com/) and the following [CONTRIBUTORS](https://github.com/jenkinsci/kubernetes-operator/graphs/contributors).

[installation]:docs/installation.md
[getting_started]:docs/getting-started.md
[how_it_works]:docs/how-it-works.md
[security]:docs/security.md
[developer_guide]:docs/developer-guide.md