We are currently provisioning a physical server as our automation server. We are making considerations as far as what our native operating system should be on this physical machine.
We are going to use a Linux OS as our operating system. From the Jenkins download page, https://jenkins.io/download/, I can see that Jenkins’ package distribution is available to Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS (which we will not be using), as well as Ubuntu / Debian. I also notice that a Generic Java package (WAR) distribution is available.
Am I correct in assuming that if we use a non-Ubuntu / non-Debian operating system, we can still install Jenkins via the WAR distribution without issue?
Are we relegated to using Debian / Ubuntu if we’re going to install Jenkins on a Linux machine (with the possibility of Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS ruled out)?
Thanks for any guidance from anybody who may have experience installing / maintaining a Jenkins instance on a Linux machine!
- Jason
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Thank you for sharing your experience!
The company is leaning towards not using Ubuntu / Debian, however we can still use it as our native operating system hosting our Jenkins instance if it is best practice / required. I have my own personal Jenkins instance setup on an Ubuntu machine and agree that the Ubuntu approach has been pretty straight forward.
Does anybody have any experience installing / maintaining Jenkins on a non-Debian / non-Ubuntu Linux operating system (with Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS ruled out)?
I am trying to discern whether or not we are relegated to a Debian / Ubuntu base operating system to host our Jenkins instance on (keeping in mind that Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS is ruled out). It should probably be noted that we will likely install / upgrade on the Jenkins LTS release schedule.
Thanks again for any advice or guidance!
- Jason
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We are currently provisioning a physical server as our automation server. We are making considerations as far as what our native operating system should be on this physical machine.
We are going to use a Linux OS as our operating system. From the Jenkins download page, I can see that Jenkins’ package distribution is available to Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS (which we will not be using), as well as Ubuntu / Debian. I also notice that a Generic Java package (WAR) distribution is available.
· Am I correct in assuming that if we use a non-Ubuntu / non-Debian operating system, we can still install Jenkins via the WAR distribution without issue?
· If we are not able to install via WAR without issue, are we relegated to using Debian / Ubuntu if we’re going to install Jenkins on a Linux machine (with the possibility of Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS ruled out)?
It should probably be noted that we will likely install / upgrade on the Jenkins LTS release schedule.
Thanks for any guidance from anybody who may have experience installing / maintaining a Jenkins instance on a Linux machine!
Jason
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Great! All this information has been extremely helpful.
If anybody else has any experience with any other flavors of Linux, please let me know what your experiences are.
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Just as a note, the WAR is not an installable thing. It's similar to a Java JAR file, you "execute" the WAR file to run Jenkins. You can run the WAR on any OS that has Java simply by doing java -jar PATH/TO/jenkins.war. There are some command line options you can provide, but in general you are just running the WAR file.
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There are competing update philosophies to consider:Ubuntu ships the latest (unstable) release of Jenkins all the time, while RedHat/CentOS/etc ships the stable version. I host on a Ubuntu VM, but definitely wish it was better tested. If stability is key, then Ubuntu may not be your best choice.
On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 16:44 +0000, Jason LeMauk wrote:We are currently provisioning a physical server as our automation server. We are making considerations as far as what our native operating system should be on this physical machine.
We are going to use a Linux OS as our operating system. From the Jenkins download page, I can see that Jenkins’ package distribution is available to Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS (which we will not be using), as well as Ubuntu / Debian. I also notice that a Generic Java package (WAR) distribution is available.
· Am I correct in assuming that if we use a non-Ubuntu / non-Debian operating system, we can still install Jenkins via the WAR distribution without issue?
· If we are not able to install via WAR without issue, are we relegated to using Debian / Ubuntu if we’re going to install Jenkins on a Linux machine (with the possibility of Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS ruled out)?
It should probably be noted that we will likely install / upgrade on the Jenkins LTS release schedule.
Thanks for any guidance from anybody who may have experience installing / maintaining a Jenkins instance on a Linux machine!
Jason
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In my experience, I have been having a miserable time with Jenkins on RHEL, where I have to either restart it or reboot the machine at least once a day. We had to move off of Ubuntu in order for our IT to support us, but are seriously considering moving back.
I have run Jenkins on Ubuntu at several companies previously with no major issues, but I generally stick to the LTS version.
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