There are two main versions of Jenkins:
- Weekly: Released every week.
- Long-term Support (LTS): Released every 12 weeks. The Jenkins team picks the most stable release from the last time an LTS was released, and designates that as the next LTS version.
For enterprise platforms, we want the most recent and stable version; therefore, we will install the latest LTS version, which is currently 2.138.1.
There are many ways to install Jenkins, listed as follows:
- It is distributed as a Web Application ARchive (WAR), or .war, file, which is simply a collection of resources that, together, constitute a web application. A WAR file is how web applications written in Java are distributed; any operating system that supports Java would ...
