Jenkins is an extendable open source continuous integration server
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Jenkins: Use it with SSL / https
I have a Fedora server running Jenkins which I install via yum.
Everything is okay, I can access it with http://ci.mydomain.com.
But now, I want to access it with https://ci.mydomain.com, so the login ...
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How can I get Jenkins to stop listening for remote connections?
I have Jenkins sitting behind Nginx, with Nginx taking care of authentication, but Jenkins is still listening on port 8080 externally, so by accessing the box on port 8080 people can bypass Nginx.
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How can I check the build status of a Jenkins build from the command line?
In trying to make doing the right thing easy, I'm looking for and making command line tools for our developers.
I'm hoping to find a way that I can check the jenkins build status without switching to ...
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Run shell scripts as root though Jenkins
I have a EC2 instance running. How can I run commands with sudo through Jenkins?
When I try sudo touch /home/ec2-user/foo.bar, I get the following error: sudo: no tty present and no askpass program ...
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Mapping hudson to a subdomain through nginx proxying
I'm now trying to setup nginx as a reverse proxy for Hudson so it can be access on http://build.example.com directly. I've already installed Hudson on Tomcat and verified that I can access Hudson on ...
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Optimal way to build and deploy a website as a .deb package
I've been battling with deploying (mainly PHP) websites as .deb files for some time and wonder if there's a better way than my rather convoluted method. My goal is continuous integration on my staging ...
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How can I modify a jenkins job configuration programatically without a restart?
Jenkins jobs have config.xml files that store the configuration of that job.
I have a "job manager" job that modifies the configuration of other jobs, but I can't seem to get it to acknowledge the ...
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What are the Jenkins/Hudson key files for?
After I have installed Jenkins (on Windows), the program folder contains, among others, two files:
identity.key (28 lines)
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIIEow......
...
-----END RSA PRIVATE ...
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Jenkins Install, Service Start failure
Trying to install Jenkins as the sole administrator user on Windows 7, with UAC turned off, the following error appears:
Nothing I have tried has been able to fix this, the system installed fine ...
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How to setup user groups based on Active Directory in Jenkins?
Is it possible to create user groups using Active Directory id's and then assign roles in Jenkins? Instead of using Jenkins default user name management?
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Installing Jenkins with Puppet fails to import GPG key
I'm trying to install Jenkins with Puppet using the manifests below.
# init.pp
class jenkins {
include jenkins::install, jenkins::service
}
# service.pp
class ...
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SSH 'connection reset' when attempting multiple simultaneous outbound connections to the same host
I have a script that executes a Rake remote task which executes once for each of two roles. Both roles are users on the same Vagrant instance. So essentially the task is opening two SSH connections ...
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Setting up Github post-receive webhook with private Jenkins and private repo
I'm trying to set up a private GitHub project to send a post-receive request to a private Jenkins instance to trigger a project build on branch push. Using latest Jenkins with the GitHub plugin.
I ...
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ForwardAgent in Jenkins
I'm trying to enable ForwardAgent in the "Publish over SSH" Jenkins Plugin. This would allow jenkins to execute deployments, rsyncs and svn+ssh checkouts on remote servers. But there's no option for ...
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How to manage groups and users in Jenkins
I'm trying to use role based security plugin in Jenkins, but i'm not sue i am using it right.
I've decided to go with jenkin's own user database as a security realm instead of LDAP. i'm adding the ...
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Apache as reverse-proxy for tomcat (running jenkins)
I have set up apache to work as a reverse proxy to tomcat that is running jenkins-CI. I can access the site from outside fine, except when I log in to jenkins, it redirects to my lan-hostname, and it ...
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Jenkins CI - Cannot allocate memory
I tested jenkins-ci successfully on a ubuntu 10.4 (with vmware fusion) on my local computer. Now I want to install and use it on my virtual server at hosteurope. The basic installation was no problem, ...
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Seeking clean resolution for zombie who caused by git fetch / ubuntu motd
I have jenkins and gitosis running on the same [Ubuntu 10.04] server. Jenkins fetches git commits from a repo served by gitosis (also running on the same server). Many repos, actually, since there are ...
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Change standalone Jenkins default URL
Running Jenkins standalone (The WAR file, java -war ./jenkins.war or whatever the command is) listening on a non-standard port. I want to get NGINX to proxy from our HTTPS site /jenkins/ to this ...
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Which Java version should I run Jenkins with?
Reference: Jenkins Users :: Jenkins on Windows: Java + JRE (version) confusion
Which Java version should I run Jenkins with (on Windows)? Should I use the included JRE of the Windows master? Should ...
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Trigger only if build fails
I'm implementing a deployment/rollback procedure using Jenkins 1.430. I would like to configure the deployment and the rollback steps as 2 separate jobs so as to be triggered independently if needed. ...
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Got the error org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException while starting jenkins
I tryed to start jenkins but got the error "org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException: jar:file:/var/run/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/lib/jenkins-core-1.413.jar!/lib/layout/layout.jelly:130:53: ...
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Jenkins/Hudson Can we monitor realtime result of external job from Console output?
I have some external jobs need to be monitoring from central Jenkins/Hudson server. Jenkins/Hudson just send job output after it finish.
Some jobs run in very long time and we aren't sure it is ...
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How can I start a hudson job using Python?
I need to start a hudson job from python, and then wait for it to complete.
This pages suggests a Python API, where can I find further information on this?
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How to configure Jenkins to handle multiple public and private GitHub repositories?
I would like to have my private GitHub repositories monitored within my Jenkins continuous integration server.
There is absolutely no problem with public repositories due to GitHub's read-only ...
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Simple SVN post-commit hook for Jenkins on Windows Server 2008
I have VisualSVN Server holding several repos with PHP applications on Windows Server 2008 machine.
I need to figure out how to deploy PHP scripts to production machines (2 Windows servers + 1 ...
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jenkins security settings for multi-tennacy
I am interested in Jenkins for systems administration. (We are not that interested in the building capabilities at this time, even though it is the main use for it) Its ability to chain jobs that ...
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Jenkins slave fails handshaking on windows
I have a win2k8 machine used as our CI master server (Jenkins)
I have various other servers running as slaves
The master is listening for slave connections on port 2000
SlaveA - can connect to ...
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How to make Hudson write to remote disk?
I have a problem writing to a remote disk using Hudson. When I write in it manually, it works.
The two computers implied: one is on Windows XP and the other is a Mac mini server. The disk that needs ...
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Deploying to Tomcat root using Jenkins
Is there any way to deploy my Java application .war file at root on Tomcat 7 server, using the Deploy plugin for Jenkins?
Currently the app gets deployed at http://server/foo/ if it comes in a file ...
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How can I make Jenkins inaccessible to the outside world?
On a development server, I have installed the tool Jenkins for automated testing. This runs on port 8080. If I go to www.mysite.com:8080 I can see the command panel for this. I want to make this ...
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Automating Jenkins module install
Is there any way to automate the install of modules within Jenkins? I'm trying to script/automate the install of my CI box as much as possible. I have just about everything working but at the moment ...
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Jenkins reports reverse proxy setup incorrect with Apache using virtual hosts with SNI
I'm setting up a Jenkins server, to run under Tomcat behind Apache. I'm using virtual hosts with SSL using SNI so I can access it at https://jenkins.example.com, and serve something else on, say, ...
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Jenkins (Windows Service) with Git over SSH
I'm having a hard time configuring Jenkins, running as a Windows Service, to connect to a git server (gitosis) and clone a repository. Jenkins is set to use the standard Git plugin.
Everything is ...
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Set JENKINS_HOME in Tomcat7?
I'm trying to set up Jenkins in Tomcat7 on Ubuntu. I installed Tomcat7 and deployed jenkins.war, and I now see the Jenkins home page at http://myhost:8080/jenkins, but it's attempting to create the ...
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ulimit not reflected for jenkins slave
Problem
Got java.io.IOException: Too many open files in solr indexing through jenkins.
Did some googling and found we have to set the ulimit for the box in where we are running the job.
So set the ...
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Tell Jenkins to run a specific project on a particular slave node
How do I tell Jenkins to run a specific project on a particular slave?
I've set up a Jenkins master node, and a slave node that I want to use for staging an application. But I can't figure out how ...
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Running Hudson builds with a lower process priority
At my office we have an older server running Hudson (1.395) and a collection of other things (JIRA and SVN being the important two). When Husdon is running builds, the slowdown on the server is very ...
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Can I install Jenkins on an unpriviledged account?
I'm trying to test Jenkins and see how it would work for our project. The problem is, there are a lot of policies and restrictions about services on my work computer , and Jenkins fails to start with ...
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There is a time and/or date difference between the client and server
I am running a Build Job using Jenkins. The Jenkins job executes a command shown below that simply copies a test file from server A to server B. Jenkins resides on Server A and well as the command ...
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File Permissions - Service vs Console
We have just setup a new build Windows 2008 R2 server for our Jenkins CI system. Our issue appears to be related to file permissions being different depending on whether a process is a service, or a ...
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Setting up Jenkins and permission issues
I have set up Jenkins on my Mac lion however I am having my share of issues. I am able to connect and download the SVN file repository however as part of my shell build script, I have to do an SVN ...
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Installed Jenkins on a Debian Server and unable to connect on any port
I installed Jenkins on a Debian server and everything seems to have worked fine.
It says Jenkins is running and I am able to start and stop it using (/etc/init.d/jenkins start).
However I am unable ...
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how do you revert on svn before doing svn update in Bamboo C.I
How do you revert on svn before doing svn update in Bamboo C.I? I know that this is possible in Jenkins.
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allow anonymous access to the job's config.xml in Jenkins
I want to switch our Jenkins to server to a better machine. The new Jenkins is installed and configured, but without the jobs. I planned to use Jenkins job import plugin in order to import all the ...
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Jenkins/Hudson - LDAP group *lookup* does not work
I'm trying to get Jenkins to authenticate users via our active directory groups.
If I insert users they are correctly looked up.
If I insert group names, they are not found.
Edit: Through trial ...
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GUI Tests in Hudson (Jenkins) on Windows
I will try to keep this question simple. I've done much research on the topic, and haven't found any solution.
GUI Tests fail when doing maven builds on Hudson (Jenkins). Hudson is running as a ...
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jenkins 1.417 versus Active Directory
I have a brand new installation of Jenkins 1.417 on Ubuntu 11.6, trying to talk to an active directory. I have the Active Directory plugin installed.
If I leave off the base DN and password, the ...
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Set up Jenkins to use Crowd's OpenID for SSO?
Been trying to get Jenkins to work with Crowd's OpenID server so we can use single sign-on like with our Atlassian stuff (the Jenkins Crowd plugin can't do SSO). Can't seem to find the proper OpenID ...
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“remote file operation failed” on remote UNIX slaves since upgrading to Jenkins 1.502
Since upgrading to Jenkins 1.502, any jobs using git on remote UNIX slaves launched by SSH fail with
hudson.util.IOException2: remote file operation failed: /var/ciworkspaces/web/workspace/DFT.BA ...
