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Jenkins Administrator's Guide

By : Calvin Sangbin Park, Lalit Adithya, Sam Gleske
Book Image

Jenkins Administrator's Guide

By: Calvin Sangbin Park, Lalit Adithya, Sam Gleske

Overview of this book

Jenkins is a renowned name among build and release CI/CD DevOps engineers because of its usefulness in automating builds, releases, and even operations. Despite its capabilities and popularity, it's not easy to scale Jenkins in a production environment. Jenkins Administrator's Guide will not only teach you how to set up a production-grade Jenkins instance from scratch, but also cover management and scaling strategies. This book will guide you through the steps for setting up a Jenkins instance on AWS and inside a corporate firewall, while discussing design choices and configuration options, such as TLS termination points and security policies. You’ll create CI/CD pipelines that are triggered through GitHub pull request events, and also understand the various Jenkinsfile syntax types to help you develop a build and release process unique to your requirements. For readers who are new to Amazon Web Services, the book has a dedicated chapter on AWS with screenshots. You’ll also get to grips with Jenkins Configuration as Code, disaster recovery, upgrading plans, removing bottlenecks, and more to help you manage and scale your Jenkins instance. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have a production-grade Jenkins instance with CI/CD pipelines in place, but also knowledge of best practices by industry experts.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
12
Index

Jenkins with Docker on HTTPS on AWS and inside a Corporate Firewall

With an understanding of the architecture from Chapter 1, Jenkins Infrastructure with TLS/SSL and Reverse Proxy, we are ready to run Jenkins. We'll learn two ways of running Jenkins – one on AWS and another inside a corporate firewall. We'll see that they're generally similar, but the reverse proxy and the port opening for inbound agent configuration are different. Don't worry – we'll configure not only a Jenkins controller but also the reverse proxy, HTTPS, agents, and even Docker Cloud together. By the end of the chapter, we will have a fully functioning Jenkins instance that's ready to take on a production workload.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Running a Jenkins controller with Docker on HTTPS
  • Reverse proxy and TLS/SSL termination options
  • Installing plugins and configuring Jenkins
  • Attaching SSH and inbound agents
  • Creating a secure Docker Cloud