Tutorial on installing Jenkins instance on CentOS 7

Installing Jenkins on CentOS 7

Jenkins Installation

Step 1: Update CentOS 7

One of the best practices for Linux system administrators is to keep their systems up to date. Install the latest stable package and reboot.

Step 2: Install Java

Before installing Jenkins, you need to set up a Java virtual machine on the system. Here, let us install the latest OpenJDK Runtime Environment 1.8.0 using YUM:

After the installation is complete, you can confirm by running the following command:

To help Java-based applications correctly locate the Java virtual machine, two environment variables need to be set: "JAVA_HOME" and "JRE_HOME".

Finally, test

Step 3: Jenkins

Install using the official YUM repoLatest stable version Jenkins

Start the Jenkins service and set it to run on startup:

In order to allow visitors to access Jenkins, you need to allow inbound traffic on port 8080:

##Now, test Jenkins by accessing the following address from your web browser:

http://:8080

<span style="color: #008000">Access is successful as shown below<span style="font-weight: bold"></span></span>

Check the password as follows

It’s done, it’s that simple