Jenkins

Jenkins is an open-source automation server that is widely used for building, testing, and deploying software projects. It is one of the most popular tools in the field of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).

Steps to install Jenkins

sudo apt-get update

• It is mandatory to have Java in our system before installing Jenkins

sudo apt-get install openjdk-17-jre

• check the version of Java

java -version

• package to install Jenkins

curl -fsSLhttps://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable/jenkins.io-2023.key | sudo tee \\
    /usr/share/keyrings/jenkins-keyring.asc > /dev/null

echo deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/jenkins-keyring.asc] \\
    <https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable> binary/ | sudo tee \\
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list > /dev/null

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install jenkins

jenkins --version

[Note: Jenkins is run in port 8080 so, to run Jenkins in our system we need to set a security firewall to give access to port 8080]

• run public-id with a port on the server

public-ip/8080

• go to the project location and paste the path

sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

• Now, it looks like

  

• click on Install suggested plugins

• create a first admin user

  

• save and continue

  

Finally, we are at our Jenkins