Can I deploy Jenkins and/or a slave node on a Server ?

[jack]

Let me explain...

Very new in computing, don't know much about servers... 

I recently started using Jenkins and have a master node running on my working PC, and successfully configured a windows slave/agent on another PC.

Since we have other OS, I'm told to "deploy jenkins directly on our Server" with all slaved on the server's virtual machines (I guess), too, and I'm given a Linux virtual machine created for me on that server.

My question is : how can I do it on a server? 

I mean... I'm not familiar with the server and all, my only interaction with a server is to login remotely via an SSH client such as putty, to modify post-commit hook. 

But to configure jenkins, I need its UI (the localhost:8080 in a browser) to do everything, like slave config etc, no ?

I mean, yes we can install jenkins on Linux just by using command lines, but that's jsut installation, what about all the config and plugins management stuff, I need to do that on an actual browser right?

So I have no clue when I'm told to "deploy jenkins and slaves on a server"...

Or in fact I can actually access a server with some sort of UI (monitor?) and perform desktop-oriented tasks? Because a server as I understand it, is nothing more than a bigger specialized computer right ? But often withhout a monitor it seems? lol

If anyone can clearify the difference of installing and config Jenkins on a PC and on a server I'd appreciate that very much :) Thanks a lot ! 

[Baptiste Mathus]

I'm sorry but it's maybe a bit too vague or too general.

Did you to first read jenkins.io introduction docs? Then you're very welcome to come back here asking more specific questions about Jenkins.

Cheers!

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[jack]

Hi;

I actually did, but in the official doc there's no detailed instruction for Linux agents via SSH; the only method they presented for windows slave is by using java web starter, which I can't adopt because I need to set up agents on a server, not on someone's PC.

I did successfully deploy a Linux agent on a remote server via SSH after a very long struggle and unusual errors.

So I want to know how to do this (hence 1: on a remote server using command line only, 2: via SSH) for Windows agents :)

The steps are still not clear today. I'm still looking for a good tutorial for this with no luck...