Jenkins #

• Jenkins is the one of the leading opensource CI/CD (or automation) tool prevalent in the industry.
• Most widely used and the massieve support available from community.

Improvement Areas #

While there are many advantages of Jenkins, these are well-known limitation or improvement areas:

• User experience though there are improvements using plugins like Blue Ocean
• Cloud-native nature in the age of alternatives like Tekton.

Local Installation #

• Installation instructions available here.

brew install jenkins-lts
brew services start jenkins-lts

• Dashboard URL (Local): http://localhost:8080/
• Password on MacOS in file: /Users/ankkumar/.jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword
• Generated a GitHub token and connected it with Jenkins

Key Plugins #

Apart from default plugins, these are relevant while it is contextual:

• Blue Ocean - for redefined user experience
• Docker - for docker integration
• Audit Log - for details of who, when and what actions
• Logstask / Kafka Logs / Syslog - for sending logs to centralized logging server
• Terraform - wrapper for Terraform
• SonarQube - for code quality. Configure as per instructions here. Manage Jenkins -> Configure system
• Snyk Security - Installation Instructions, Configuration Instructions