Tag: jenkins

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