Jenkins Installation on various OS - a simple practical guide

Jenkins Installation on Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS/Fedora – a simple practical guide

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Last Updated on February 29, 2024 by cscontents

Introduction

Jenkins installation fairly simple, we need to follow right instructions. Before going through the Jenkins installation guide let’s see a brief introduction about jenkins.

Jenkins is an open source pipeline tool or automation server. It is one of the most powerful & widely used pipeline tool. We can use Jenkins for automation purpose by creating pipeline.

Jenkins is also known as CI tool (Continuous Integration tool). As a CI tool jenkins is very powerful, and it is widely used for continuous integration. Not only Continuous Integration (CI) tool, but Jenkins can also be used as Continuous Deployment or Delivery (CD) tool. Jenkins is used to created CI/CD pipeline which is one of the most popular automation concept in DevOps methodology which fasten software delivery process.

Jenkins is written in Java, so every time we need to install Java before installing Jenkins on any machine.

In this article we will see installation of Jenkins for various OS.

Prerequisite Setup

To complete this tutorial, you would need below –

You should have one machine where you want to install Jenkins.

In case of Linux/Windows machine, below are the specification –

  • The machine should have below minimum hardware spec –
    • RAM – 256 MB
    • Drive space – 1 GB
  • If you plan to use the Jenkins in a small team, then below are hardware spec –
    • RAM – 4 GB+
    • Drive space – 50 GB+

Jenkins installation on Debian/ Ubuntu

Before installing jenkins we need to install Java.

Java installation on ubuntu

Execute the below commands one by one to install Java.

# Run apt update command.

sudo apt update

# Install OpenJDK

sudo apt install openjdk-11-jre

# Check the java version

java -version

Jenkins installation

Run the below commands one by one to install jenkins.

# Add the LTS release of Jenkins from debian-stable apt repository

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

# Append the debian package repository in the sources.list

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

# Run apt update command.

sudo apt update

# Install jenkins

sudo apt install jenkins

# Start Jenkins service

sudo systemctl start jenkins

# Check the status of Jenkins service

systemctl status jenkins

Jenkins installation on Fedora

Before installing jenkins we need to install Java.

Java installation on Fedora

Execute the below commands one by one to install Java.

# Run the dnf upgrade command.

sudo dnf upgrade

# Install Java

sudo dnf install java-11-openjdk

# Check the java version

java -version

Jenkins installation

Run the below commands one by one to install jenkins.

# Download and install the LTS release branch from redhat-stable repository.

sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo \
    https://pkg.jenkins.io/redhat-stable/jenkins.repo
sudo rpm --import https://pkg.jenkins.io/redhat-stable/jenkins.io.key

# Run the dnf upgrade command.

sudo dnf upgrade

# Run the below commands.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start jenkins
sudo systemctl status jenkins

Jenkins installation on RHEL/ CentOS

Before installing jenkins we need to install Java.

Java installation on RHEL/ CentOS

Execute the below commands one by one to install Java.

# Run the yum upgrade command.

sudo yum upgrade

# Install Java

sudo yum install java-11-openjdk

# Check the java version

java -version

Jenkins installation

Run the below commands one by one to install jenkins.

# Download and install the LTS release branch from redhat-stable repository

sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo \
    https://pkg.jenkins.io/redhat-stable/jenkins.repo

 

sudo rpm --import https://pkg.jenkins.io/redhat-stable/jenkins.io.key

# Run yum upgrade command.

sudo yum upgrade

# Install jenkins

sudo yum install jenkins

# Run the below commands.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start jenkins
sudo systemctl status jenkins

Jenkins installation on macOS

To install jenkins on macOS, please follow the below official document.

https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/macos/

Jenkins installation on Windows

To install Jenkins on Windows, please follow the below official document.

https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/windows/

 

Thank You.

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