Ansible Role: Jenkins [Ansible Playbook Role To Install Jenkins]

Install Jenkins, a distributed version control system, on any RHEL/CentOS Linux system.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

# Jenkins vars
jenkins_dest: /opt/jenkins
jenkins_lib: /var/lib/jenkins
port: 8081
prefix: '"--prefix=/jenkins/"'
jenkins:
  cli_dest: '{{ jenkins_dest }}/jenkins-cli.jar' # Jenkins CLI destination
  updates_dest: '{{ jenkins_dest }}/updates_jenkins.json' # Jenkins updates file
jenkins_api_url: "http://localhost:{{ port }}{{ prefix }}"
jenkins_cli_cmd: "java -jar {{ jenkins.cli_dest }} -s {{ jenkins_api_url }}"
java_home: /opt/jdk1.8.0_111

Dependencies

This role depends on avinash6784.oracle-java role. This is configured for ansible-galaxy install in requirements.yml.

NOTE: Requirements are installed as virtual user avinash6784 (avinash6784.oracle-java).

Be sure to install required roles with

ansible-galaxy install --role-file requirements.yml

Usage and Example Playbook

Install from Ansible Galaxy

$ ansible-galaxy install avinash6784.jenkins

Or download manually

$ git clone https://github.com/avinash6784/ansible-jenkins.git 

The code should reside in the roles directory of ansible ( See ansible documentation for more information on roles ), in a folder jenkins.

Run the playbook

First create a playbook including the git role, naming it jenkins.yml.

- name: Install Jenkins
  hosts: jenkins
  become: true
  roles:
    - jenkins
    
$ ansible-playbook -i hosts jenkins.yml

Author Informations

This role was created by Avinash Pawar.