Summary

The notes below are complimentary to the youtube video showing students how to setup Jenkins on the cloud along with

• Setting up Gradle to run builds on Jenkins
• Setting up Junit to generate a test report
• Setting up Jacoco to generate a code coverage report
• Setting up a Webhook from Github to Jenkins
• Setting up a jar file as output of a jenkins build

The Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCnmcsc7VEc

On your browser

1. Create an account on Vultr

2. Head to Products > Plus button > Deploy new server

   1. Choose server - Cloud compute
   2. Server location - Sydney
   3. Server type - Marketplace Apps > Docker > Ubuntu 20.04 x64

3. Head to Products > Server > Server Details and note down ip address, username and password

   It should look something like 107.191.57.92 root and v3j4by@341 respectively

On your terminal

1. Remote into your newly created instance via ssh

   ssh <username>@<ip address>
   

2. Create a docker container with Jenkins official image and give it a custom name myjenkins

   docker run -d --restart always -p 80:8080 -p 50000:50000 -v jenkins_home:/var/jenkins_home --name myjenkins jenkins/jenkins:lts-jdk11
   

3. Find your initial password by executing the command below, it should look something like a1234b32b32412asdf123vbdfgasfqwer

   docker exec myjenkins cat /var/jenkins_home/secrets/initialAdminPassword
   

On your browser

1. Open your browser and head to <ip address> e.g. http://107.191.57.92