Install Jenkins – Ubuntu, CentOS

What is Jenkins? Jenkins is a well-known open source CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) automation server written in Java.

In this tutorial i will show how to install Jenkins on Ubuntu-18.04, 16.04 and Centos-7, 6 and how to perform initial Jenkins configuration.

Jenkins requires Java, so firstly it needs to install OpenJDK-8 JRE/JDK (Java Runtime Environment and Java Development Kit).

Install Java

Jenkins requires Java and if it is not installed you may receive an error as follows:

ERROR: No Java executable found in current PATH: /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin

Found an Incorrect Java Version? Modern versions of Jenkins require Java 8 and it is the ONLY supported runtime environment.

Check if Java is installed and what is the version:

$ java -version

Install OpenJDK-8 JRE/JDK on Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jre

Install OpenJDK-8 JRE/JDK on CentOS:

$ sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel

Install Jenkins on Ubuntu

Install the latest stable Jenkins version on Ubuntu:

$ wget -q -O - https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian/jenkins-ci.org.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo deb http://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable binary/ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install jenkins

As only Jenkins is installed on Ubuntu, it will be started and added to auto-start automatically.

Install Jenkins on CentOS

Install the latest stable Jenkins version on CentOS:

$ sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat-stable/jenkins.repo 
$ sudo rpm --import https://jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins-ci.org.key
$ sudo yum install jenkins

On CentOS, Jenkins is configured to start on boot automatically, but by default it is stopped.

To start the Jenkins, run:

$ sudo service jenkins start

Configure Jenkins

By default, Jenkins listens on port 8080.

Open http://$JENKINS_IP:8080 in your web-browser to start configuration.

To unlock Jenkins and sign in it will be required to copy and paste the password that has been written to the file /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword on Jenkins server.

$ sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword
ea0e27bb08cd497c86a3777121c8b967

After unlocking Jenkins, select plugins to install, create administrative user and configure URL that will be used to access Jenkins.

Now you are ready to start using Jenkins!

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