Software Development

Install Jenkins in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AWS EC2

This post demonstrates how to install Jenkins in Red Hat Enterprise Linux in AWS EC2.

Requirements

AWS Account
Email address
Provisioned EC2 instance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMI
- Installed with Java (JDK) 8
Putty

Install Jenkins

Step 1: Download Jenkins

Login to our EC2 instance via putty. Then change to super user:

sudo su

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sudo su

Use the following command to download Jenkins:

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

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

Then invoke the following command:

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sudo rpm --import https://jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins-ci.org.key

1	sudo rpm --import https://jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins-ci.org.key

Step 2: Install Jenkins

Invoke the following command:

yum install jenkins

1	yum install jenkins

Type y and press enter to proceed.

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Step 3: Start Jenkins

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Step 4: Access Jenkins via Web Browser

First, we need the IP address assigned to our EC2 instance.

Access Jenkins via the 8080 port.

Next, we need to administrator password to unlock our Jenkins. Invoke the following command in Linux:

cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

1	cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

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Copy the password and paste it to the Administrator password field.

Then click Continue to proceed.

Then Jenkins initializes itself.

Click Install suggested Plugins.

Install plugins

Install plugins

Then Jenkins installs plugins.

Installing plugins

Installing plugins

Still processing.

Installing plugins

Installing plugins

Then Jenkins asks for details for the first admin user it will create.

Create first admin user

Create first admin user

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Jenkins is now ready

Jenkins is now ready

Done!

Step 5: Successful installation

Successful installation

Successful installation