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Developer tools
Continuous Integration
Testing
IT infrastructure
Monitoring

Jenkins

Continuous integration

Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Among those things, current Jenkins focuses on building/testing software projects continuously (e.g., like CruiseControl) and monitoring executions of externally-run jobs.

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Deploy Jenkins on Amazon EC2

V 18.0

Manifest & Sigs

V 17.1

Manifest & Sigs

GitHub

Issues
Stable version: 18.0 (changelog)

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

  • Jenkins configurations:
    • Jenkins is installed from the Long Term Support package repository managed directly by the Jenkins project.

      Security note: Updates to Jenkins may require supervision so they ARE NOT configured to install automatically. See below for updating Jenkins.

    • Jenkins is preconfigured to use PAM authentication. Default user (as of v16.0) is jenkins-admin.
    • Includes all popular VCS clients and related Jenkins plugins for Git, Bazaar, Mercurial and Subversion.
    • JENKINS_HOME configured in environment: /var/lib/jenkins.
    • jenkins-cli bash wrapper script - can now use 'jenkins-cli' instead of 'java -jar path/to/jenkins-cli.jar' (convenience).
  • SSL support out of the box.
  • Includes postfix MTA (bound to localhost) for sending of email (e.g. password recovery).
  • Webmin modules for configuring Apache and Postfix.

Supervised Manual Jenkins Update

To upgrade to the latest version of Jenkins from the command line:

apt-get update
apt-get install jenkins

We recommend subscribing to the Jenkins Security Advisories mailing list

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Usage details & Logging in for Administration

  • Jenkins: default username is jenkins-admin.

No default passwords: For security reasons there are no default passwords. All passwords are set at system initialization time.

Ignore SSL browser warning: browsers don't like self-signed SSL certificates, but this is the only kind that can be generated automatically. If you have a domain configured, then via Confconsole Advanced menu, you can generate free Let's Encypt SSL/TLS certificates.

Web - point your browser at either:

  1. http://12.34.56.789/ - not encrypted so no browser warning
  2. https://12.34.56.789/ - encrypted with self-signed SSL certificate

Username for OS system administration:

Login as root except on AWS marketplace which uses username admin.

  1. Point your browser to:
  2. Login with SSH client: 
    ssh root@12.34.56.789

    Special case for AWS marketplace:

    ssh admin@12.34.56.789

* Replace 12.34.56.789 with a valid IP or hostname.