Jenkins Configuration Management

This tutorial will show you how to manage the configuration of a Jenkins installation with Ansible and Jenkins Job DSL. At the end of the tutorial, you’ll have your Jenkins installation’s configuration under version control and you’ll be able to test changes to the configuration locally in a virtual machine before applying them to your CI server.

First we’ll create a configuration for a Jenkins installation that runs on your computer in a virtual machine. Then we’ll apply the same configuration to a Linux server, either updating the configuration of an existing Jenkins installation or creating a new installation.

This tutorial covers the basics of Vagrant, Ansible and Jenkins Job DSL. If you’re proficient with all these tools, you can probably skip this tutorial and jump straight to the reference documentation of the solita.jenkins Ansible role.

• Prerequisites
• Setting up the Virtual Machine
• Installing Jenkins with Ansible
• Configuring Jenkins