Appendix D. Downloading and installing Jenkins

This appendix covers the download and installation of Jenkins, which is required for chapter 12. Downloading and installing Jenkins is simple. If you do run into any trouble, you can probably find some help in the wiki at https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Meet+Jenkins.

D.1. Downloading Jenkins

You can download Jenkins from http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/. For the examples in chapter 12, we used Jenkins 1.424.

The common, OS-independent way to install Jenkins is to use the jenkins.war package. But if you’re not familiar with running your own web server, such as Apache Tomcat or Jetty, you can download the standalone package for your OS.

 

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