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Jenkins is one of the CI Servers available in the market.
We can use the Jenkins CI Server for implementing Continuous Integration in the Software Development practice.
In this article, I am going to practically demonstrate the steps for downloading and installing Jenkins in our machine.
Let’s get started.
Downloading and Installing Jenkins
Follow the below steps for downloading and installing Jenkins in your machine:
1) Google search for ‘Jenkins Download’ and click on the below-shown link:
2) In the displayed ‘Jenkins’ download page, scroll down to the ‘Weekly’ section page, click on ‘Windows’ option as shown below:
3) Observe that the Jenkins is getting downloaded as shown below:
4) Once the Jenkins got completely downloaded, extract the downloaded zip as shown below:
5) Observe that Jenkins.exe file got extracted as shown below:
6) Double click on the above downloaded Jenkins exe file to execute it. Observe that the Installation Wizard for installing Jenkins will be displayed as shown below:
7) On clicking the above ‘Finish’ button, the Jenkins will automatically start in the chrome browser at localhost:8080 location and ‘Unlock Jenkins’ page will be displayed after a while as shown below:
8) As we need to provide the password into the above text field, navigate to the path displayed on the above screen in red color as shown below:
Note: Navigate till the secrets folder in the above red color path on the screen (i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\secrets)
9) In the above path, open ‘initialAdminPassword’ file in any editor say ‘NotePad++’ as shown below:
10) Copy the password displayed in the editor as shown below:
11) Paste the copied password into the text field and click on the ‘Continue’ button as shown below:
12) In the displayed ‘Customize Jenkins’ screen, click on ‘Install suggested plugins’ option as shown below:
13) Make sure that all the plugins displayed on the page are successfully installed without any failures:
14) Once all the above plugins are successfully installed, we will be automatically taken to the ‘Create First Admin User’ page as shown below:
15) Enter the above-required details and click on ‘Save and continue’ button in the above screen.
Note: Remember the Username and Password, which are needed for logging in.
16) Click on the ‘Save and Continue’ button on the ‘Instant Configuration’ page as shown below:
17) ‘Jenkins is ready’ will be displayed and click on ‘Start using Jenkins’ button as shown below:
18) Jenkins will be started and logged in as shown below:
Here concludes the practical demonstration of downloading and installing Jenkins.
In the next article, I will practically explain using Jenkins.
Next Steps:
- > To learn more about Jenkins, continue to the next post (Click on Next Post link below)
- > Check complete Jenkins for Testers Tutorial Contents here (Click here)
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