It's unclear to me why the Kubernetes plugin requires so much configuration. In general, Jenkins should be able to talk to Kubernetes with a KUBECONFIG and nothing else. Yet, when I give it a KUBECONFIG via a Jenkins secret, it still seems to connect to 'kubernetes.svc.default' which seems incorrect to me.

 

(Also, I didn't want to open a new bug for this, but why does this setup require the Jenkins instance to have port 5000 open? That's an operational burden for me...)