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Setting up Continuous Integration on Jenkins 2

Installing Jenkins 2​

Standard​

Install JDK 8 on your machine.

Go to the official site https://jenkins.io/2.0/

Download the jenkins.war

With Docker​

Launch the Docker image (the default port has been changed to 18080 since the JHipster app is configured to run on 8080)

docker container run -d --name jenkins2 -p 18080:8080 -p 50000:50000 jenkins/jenkins

You can then access the Jenkins dashboard on

Note: You'll be asked for an initialAdminPassword which you'll find in the logs during your container startup. You can also access it via docker logs jenkins2 e.g.

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Jenkins initial setup is required. An admin user has been created and a password generated.
Please use the following password to proceed to installation:

6707db8735be4ee29xy056f65af6ea13

This may also be found at: /var/jenkins_home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

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Create a new Job​

  • Add New Item
    • Enter an item name
    • Select pipeline
    • Click OK

Jenkins2 item

  • Definition: Pipeline script from SCM
  • SCM: Git
  • Repositories
    • Repository URL: select your repository here

Jenkins2 pipeline

Jenkinsfile​

Jenkins2 result