Connecting Jenkins to GitHub

[HB]

All,

I am completely new to Jenkins but am tasked with getting a working environment up and running.

Everything appears to running well as follows:

RHEL 7.5

Jenkins ver 2.148

Installed using the below yum repo:

[jenkins]

name=Jenkins

baseurl=http://pkg.jenkins.io/redhat

gpgcheck=1

I have it configured to use Active Directory for user authentication and roles.

My questions revolve around getting Jenkins connected to GitHub.  I am following these steps:

https://gist.github.com/misterbrownlee/3708738

I have created a 'utility user' (say git-jenkins) in GitHub that will ideally be the user that Jenkins uses to connect to GitHub.  I also have created a key pair for the connection.  Since Jenkins runs as user 'jenkins' on the server, I created the key pair as this user and imported the public key to the 'git-jenkins' utility user in GitHub.

I also set:

Global Config user.name Value

Global Config user.email Value

to the 'git-jenkins' GitHub utility user via: Manage Jenkins --> Configure System.

I am trying to follow these steps:

- Make sure the Manage Jenkins > Configure System has the right path to git

- Set the global git user.name and user.email to match your global config options

- Configure GitHub Web Hook to Manually manage hook urls

- Click the (?) icon next to the manual option and copy the hook URL you see there

- Optionally set the service account email as the Jenkins sender email address

However, I am not able to successfully 'test connection' to GitHub in Manage Jenkins --> Configure System..

I am able to clone the repository from the command line with a different user than the 'git-jenkins' utility user via Jenkins.  But since the 'jenkins' user on the server does not have a login shell out of the box, I am unable to test from the command line.

Can anyone point me in the right direction here as to what I might be missing?  I hope I have not confused the situation too much.

Thanks in advance,

HB

[Robert Rajendra]

To integrate Jenkins with github. You need to install gith , github plugins with ssh plugin you can read the docs regarding these and get the work done

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[HB]

Thank you for the reply.  I am not seeing 'gith' plugin, is that short for a plugin?  Here are the plugins that I have installed referring to git and ssh:

Git client plugin

2.7.3

Git plugin

3.9.1

GIT server Plugin

1.7

GitHub API Plugin

1.92

GitHub Branch Source Plugin

2.4.1

GitHub plugin

1.29.3

SSH Credentials Plugin

1.14

SSH Slaves plugin

1.28.1

Am I missing plugins that you are referring to?  Thanks again, any guidance is greatly appreciated..

HB

[sagar utekar]

Hi,

Search for a GitHub integration plugin.

Here is a YouTube video link you can refer - 

https://youtu.be/Z3S2gMBUkBo

Thank you.

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[HB]

Thank you.  After installing the GitHub integration plugin and watching the video, I was able to create a project just as in the video.

My GitHub repository contains only the README.md file as well, however the difference is that my repo is private.  The item I create to my private repo on GitHub is not requiring that I add any credentials.  Despite not creating any credentials after clicking the git radio button under 'Source Code Management', I can just save the item successfully.  I can also click on the GitHub link within the project and it takes me right to the repo in GitHub.

Does this sound correct?  I feel like it should require defining credentials to successfully connect to GitHub.  Or is it that I am being successfully connected via the public key that I put in place on the GitHub side?  Or is it possibly a cookie that is allowing the connection?  Is that something I can verify some how?

Thanks,

HB

[Mark Waite]

If Jenkins is running under your user id and the GitHub repository URL is using SSH and you're using command line git as the git implementation, then command line git fallback to use your default ssh private key.  That's a behavior of command line git more than a behavior of Jenkins.

If Jenkins is running under your user id and the GitHub repository https repository credentials have been permanently stored with git credentials, then command line git will use those credentials.

If Jenkins is running under another user id or the GitHub repository URL is using https without stored credentials or you're using JGit, then a credential will need to be provided.

It is usually best to provide those credentials and not rely on command line git defaults.

Mark Waite

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