DevOps Tools/CI/Jenkins/Configuration

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Jenkins Configuration

The goal of this page is to provide some examples of post-installation configurations.

Post-Installation

Immediately after finishing installation of Jenkins and restarting Tomcat, when you browse to the page, you'll be greeted with a page asking for an administrator secret code. You can obtain this code easily:

~$ sudo cat /opt/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword
8dj28DH83d0DJ30h8d1uhd1skdfd

Jenkins will then ask you if you want to install some common plug-ins from a pre-defined list, which i've always done, or manually select what you want (or don't want).
Note: I would recommend that you install at least (1) plug-in to make sure Jenkins can successfully write to the directories it needs and create files/make changes. Better to find out now than later on.

Common Additional Plugins

Below are some common plugins which i've installed.

Gitlab Authentication plugin

This is the an authentication plugin using gitlab OAuth.

Gitlab Hook Plugin

Enables Gitlab web hooks to be used to trigger SMC polling on Gitlab projects

GitLab Logo Plugin

Display GitLab Repository Icon on dashboard

GitLab Plugin

This plugin allows GitLab to trigger Jenkins builds and display their results in the GitLab UI.

Safe Restart Plugin

This plugin allows you to restart Jenkins safely.