#jenkins #installation

Update the system first
sudo apt update

Instructions are available on this page
https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable/

Jenkins Debian Packages

This is the Debian package repository of Jenkins to automate installation and upgrade. To use this repository, first add the key to your system (for the Weekly Release Line):

sudo wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/jenkins-keyring.asc \ [https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable/jenkins.io-2023.key](https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable/jenkins.io-2023.key)

Then add a Jenkins apt repository entry:

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

Update your local package index, then finally install Jenkins:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install fontconfig openjdk-17-jre

sudo apt-get install jenkins

Check if jenkins is running, if it's not running then run below command
sudo systemctl status jenkins

enable the jenkins service
sudo systemctl enable jenkins

Note: Accessing Jenkins dashboard if it is running through ec2 instance

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Add the above inbound rules to access successfully by default port 22 which is for ssh is enabled add the remaining type like HTTP, HTTPS also custom tcp 8080 too.

After the above changes dashboard is accessible at port 8080, for ec2 type
public_ip4_address:8080

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The above dashboard is visible, now to access admin password go to terminal and type
sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Install suggested plugins, create admin user and now its ready.