Installing and Managing Jenkins on Amazon Linux

Question

I'm looking to move Jenkins to Amazon EC2 running Amazon Linux.

Currently we have Jenkins installed as a package (via yum). I'm considering running Jenkins as the contained jenkins.war on EC2 (for auto-upgrades and ease of deployment).

Unfortunately I've been unable to find much documentation regarding managing jenkins as the latter.

I'm trying to determine:

• Which installation is preferred, and why?
• If running as a contained jar:
  • How do I start/stop jenkins?
  • Should I create a jenkins user?

Answer 1

Installation Steps :

1. Please launch an Amazon Linux instance using Amazon Linux AMI.

2. Login to your Amazon Linux instance.

3. Become root using “sudo su -” command.

4. Update your repositories

   yum update

5. Get Jenkins repository using below command

   wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat-stable/jenkins.repo

6. Get Jenkins repository key

   rpm --import http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat-stable/jenkins-ci.org.key

7. Install jenkins package

   yum install jenkins

8. Start jenkins and make sure it starts automatically at system startup

   service jenkins start

   chkconfig jenkins on

9. Open your browser and navigate to http://<Elastic-IP>:8080. You will see jenkins dashboard.

That’s it. You have your jenkins setup up and running. Now, you can create jobs to build the code.

Reference: http://sanketdangi.com/post/62715793234/install-configure-jenkins-on-amazon-linux

Answer 2

Jenkins Installation Ubuntu 14.04/16.01 Please follow the steps given below. Switch to root user sudo su -

1. sudo apt-get update

2. sudo apt-get install default-jdk

3. sudo apt-get install default-jre
4. wget -q -O - https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian/jenkins-ci.org.key | sudo apt-key add -
5. echo deb https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable binary/ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list
6. sudo apt-get update
7. apt-get install jenkins
8. Get jenkins Password from:- vi /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword Browse:- eg: 192.168.xx.xx:8080