How to build Platform QA Jenkins

So, I never have done a step-by-step to build the Jenkins instance that I have built. Knowing how to do it yourself might be important if you want to test jobs running in Jenkins.

First of all, decide on the host OS for Jenkins. I chose Ubuntu 14 for several reasons:

• It's free.
• It's easy to install on a virtual machine.
• There are now incredibly easy-to-install debian packages that do all of the work of installing Java, installing Jenkins, setting up a Jenkins user, and starting Jenkins automatically on Linux. Updating Jenkins then becomes a matter of running updates like you would for other software.

Setting up the master VM

• Install Ubuntu on a VM host, like VirtualBox or VMWare.
• Give the VM at least 2 cores, 80 GB of disk space, and 4 GB of memory.
• Follow the instructions here:
• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+Ubuntu
• Install the following Plugins. First follow the following steps:
• Navigate to your jenkins instance.
• Click on "Manage Jenkins"
• Click on "Manage Plugins". (This is the url http://localhost:8080/pluginManager on your VM)
• Click on "Available". Install the following:
• File System SCM
• Filesystem Trigger Plug-in
• GIT client plugin
• GIT Parameter Plug-in
• GIT plutin
• GitHub API Plugin
• Mercurial plugin
• Multiple SCMs plugin
• SSH Agent Plugin
• SSH Credentials Plugin
• SSH plugin
• SSH Slaves plugin
• URLTrigger Plug-in
• Windows Slaves Plugin
• Workspace Cleanup Plugin
• Restart Jenkins.

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