Update the system first
sudo apt update
Instructions are available on this page https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable/
Jenkins Debian Packages
This is the Debian package repository of Jenkins to automate installation and upgrade. To use this repository, first add the key to your system (for the Weekly Release Line):
sudo wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/jenkins-keyring.asc \ [https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable/jenkins.io-2023.key](https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable/jenkins.io-2023.key)
Then add a Jenkins apt repository entry:
echo deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/jenkins-keyring.asc] \ https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable binary/ | sudo tee \ /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list > /dev/null
Update your local package index, then finally install Jenkins:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fontconfig openjdk-17-jre
sudo apt-get install jenkins
Check if jenkins is running, if it’s not running then run below command
sudo systemctl status jenkins
enable the jenkins service
sudo systemctl enable jenkins
Note: Accessing Jenkins dashboard if it is running through ec2 instance
Add the above inbound rules to access successfully by default port 22 which is for ssh is enabled add the remaining type like HTTP, HTTPS also custom tcp 8080 too.
After the above changes dashboard is accessible at port 8080, for ec2 type public_ip4_address:8080
The above dashboard is visible, now to access admin password go to terminal and type
sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword
Install suggested plugins, create admin user and now its ready.