01_Jenkins_Installation

Installation process of Jenkins

• Download and install latest version of JDK (Java 7 or newer version is recomended)

• Add the Jenkins repository to the yum repos, and install Jenkins from here.

  • sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins.repo
  • sudo rpm --import https://jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins-ci.org.key
  • sudo yum install jenkins

• Turn jenkins service at startup and restart the service

  • chkconfig jenkins on
  • service jenkins start

• Open your browser and hit the below URL to open Jenkins UI

  • http://localhost:8080/

• It will now prompt for the Initial Admin password which is available in the below file

  • /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword Copy that password and paste in the field in the Jenkins web UI

• Now it will prompt for the installation of Jenkins Plugins. Go for the default.

• You are all set and the final step is that you need to create a Jenkins user.