Install Jenkins on an ec2 instance

Question

How do I install jenkins on an ec2 instance? Its a Linux instance, EC2 RHEL 7.x Instance, to be specific.

Answer 1

Hey @Yamini, follow these steps:

1. Install Java

yum install java-1.8*

2. Confirm java version

java -version

3. Install Jenkins:

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

4. Start and enable jenkins:

# Start jenkins service
systemctl start jenkins

# Setup Jenkins to start at boot,
systemctl enable jenkins