JENKINS EASY INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR RHEL8

Hasti Vora
3 min readMar 20, 2021

Prerequisite -

  1. Click here to download -> Redhat Jenkins Packages [ I have used jenkins-2.82–1.1.noarch.rpm ]
  2. Click here to download -> Java SE Development Kit 8 [ I have used jdk-8u281-linux-x64.rpm ]
  3. Click here to download -> WinSCP :: Official Site :: Download

Follow the following steps:

  1. Download all the above software. Move java and jenkins to rhel using WINSCP.

2. Now the first step is to install java in rhel.

Command :- yum install java

To check for successful installation.

3. Install Jenkins now.

Check for successful installation.

4. Start jenkins service and check service status

Command :-

systemctl start jenkins

systemctl status jenkins

5. Go to firefox. enter [yourip:8080] in url.

Copy the path as shown below.

6. Go to terminal and enter

cat __copied_path__

Copy the Administrator Password as follows.

7. Go back to firefox and paste your administrator password.

8. For now we don’t need to install any plugin so click on cross and skip this step.

9. Click on start using jenkins.

10. You will get a Dashboard. Click on Configure in Profile.

11. You can now set the password and user name the one you want here.

12. Now You can login with your own credentials anytime !

THANKYOU FOR TAKING OUT TIME TO READ :) !!

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