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Jenkins: What is Jenkins and its installation steps

Jenkins: What is Jenkins and its installation steps

What is Jenkins?
Jenkins is an leading open source continuous integration server built with Java developed by Hudson lab. It is cross-platform and can be used on Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Solaris environments.
Specifically for a test only project, it is used to schedule jobs for regression testing without manual intervention and hence monitor infrastructural and functional health of a application. It can be used like a scheduler for integration testing and also can be used to validate new deployments/environments on a single click on a Build now button .
 
Advantages :
·         Jenkins is an open source tool with much support from its community.
·         Installation is easier.
·         It has more than 1000 plug-in to make the work easier.
·         It is easy to create new Jenkins plugin if one is not available.
·         It is a tool which is written in Java. Hence it can be portable to almost all major platforms.

 

 
Installation:
1.      Download Jenkins.war file from this link

 

2.      Copy the downloaded file and paste it in C Drive
3.      Open the command prompt and change directory to where the “Jenkins.war” copied using cd..
4.      In my case I kept my .war in C drive hence after opening the command prompt I am tying cd.. for 2 times to navigate to C drive where .war was copied
 
5.      Type  java –jar Jenkins.war and hit enter button

1.      Below message will display :

1.      Once Jenkins is up and running then in the browser open this URL : http://localhost:8080
2.      When we open above URL it will ask password by specifying a location , goto that location and the get the security key and update it in password and click on next button
 
3.      Below screen will display after successful login :
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