Quickstart

The fastest way to get started is by making use of the jenkins-bootstrap-jervis project.

Features of the bootstrap

Can build an immutable package of Jenkins and plugins pinning the exact version of all in the package. The following formats are generated.

• rpm
• deb
• tar
• Docker image

Getting started locally

The jenkins-bootstrap-jervis project is designed to start and configure a local Jenkins instance as well as packaging for production. This allows admins to test changes and upgrades easily.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/samrocketman/jenkins-bootstrap-jervis
cd jenkins-bootstrap-jervis/
#copy the settings and fill them out
cp settings.groovy.EXAMPLE settings.groovy
#bootstrap locally
./jervis_bootstrap.sh