Installing Jenkins

This chapter is all about installing Jenkins across various platforms, and more. After completing this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

  • Run Jenkins on a servlet container (Apache Tomcat)
  • Run Jenkins as a standalone application on Windows/Ubuntu/Red Hat Linux/Fedora
  • Run Jenkins behind a reverse proxy server (Nginx)
  • Run Jenkins with Docker
  • Leverage the advantages of Docker data volumes
  • Run development, staging, and production instance of Jenkins using Docker