Category: Jenkins

Free IT e-books with Jenkins

 

Maybe some of you know PacktPub – part of the Pack Publishing Limited Company. They publish once a day a free IT e-books, which can be saved and downloaded from the account. Every day one can download another e-book from the very big library. It’s a really really great possibility, but it has one, serious problem. We must remember to take a look at the page every day. Without this, we may miss something interesting. Moreover, manual checking is not what we want to do. You wouldn’t be there if you like doing manual things, which can be done automatically! Continue reading

How to run Jenkins with docker?

 

Sometimes no one wants to deploy and configure the whole server and applications. Especially when the time is the scarce resource. Developers know about it – they face this problem every day. One of the solutions is docker. It helps with deploying, provisioning and automating development and production environments without the big workload. Docker can help also with learning. You do not need the create separated virtual machines for your labs. The only one you need is docker and your own notebook/PC. Forget about long configuration processes and subsequent work expenditures (removing, cleaning etc.). If you want to learn some Jenkins, Continue reading

How to use credentials in Jenkins projects?

 

Some time ago I published a post in which I explain how you can create credentials in Jenkins. It’s very important topic because there are several ways to manage the credentials, but not all of them are safe. I showed you in my post how to use Credential Plugin, and it’s enough for adding, storing and managing secrets, but not for using them in the builds. I think this topic should have a separate discussion, so I decided to make this post. So now you will learn how to use credentials in Jenkins projects! Short reminder One can add and manage Continue reading

How to create credentials in Jenkins

 

Every system, application or another solution has some authentication providers. Sometimes it’s a local password storage, sometimes administrator can implement AD (or another LDAP), Radius, OAuth etc. Nobody can reach the system without username and password, private key, secret token etc. Words below are so obvious that I feel stupid for writing them. But anyway it’s a very important entry into my today post – how to create credentials in Jenkins. Because even Jenkins has to use credentials in its projects and builds. If you have ever used Jenkins, you probably know that you can pass username and password as a Continue reading

Jenkins has stopped working after upgrade to 2.54

 

Jenkins upgrade is very easy – you just need to use the package manager and run one command. After the update, Jenkins processes are restarted and the system is ready to use. Since version 2.54 you may face some problems with the update. Jenkins can be resistant to restart and returns the 503 error when you try to access web UI. It is caused by the Java (yes, I know, “it’s always Java!”). Jenkins has been using Java 8 since the 2.54 version, hence you may have problems if you still use Java 7. And it’s more than likely that Continue reading

Jenkins Windows slave agent as a service

 

Jenkins is a fantastic tool for automation every process in your company/lab/your own projects. You can integrate your PowerCLI scripts with Ansible and even more utilities. I won’t describe Jenkins, because the are tons of pages (and also its own Wikipedia) which do it better than me. I want to focus on one problem. Run Jenkins Windows slave agent as a service inside the operating system. Jenkins allows you to set up many workers. It can be a Linux as well as Windows machine. In the basic configuration, Jenkins has only one master node, on which is installed. For more Continue reading