Jenkins service always pending on minikube

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

Here is a single command for lazy people who do not want to create the separate config.yaml file

helm install --name jenkins --set Master.ServiceType=NodePort stable/jenkins

In case there are more than one option which you want to set, provide them as comma-separated

helm install --name jenkins --set Master.ServiceType=NodePort,Persistence.Enabled=false stable/jenkins

Also see the option available which you can set here. This is same as helm inspect command but more readable since available as a web page