Jenkins is the most sought-after tool used for automating software development.

The automation software allows you to easily integrate various DevOps stages in your project.

Jenkins has great community support.

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The best thing about the tool is that it is easy to install and learn on any Linux system.

Lets see how you might install and configure Jenkins on Ubuntu 22.04.

What Is Jenkins?

Terminal is showing Jenkins is active

Jenkins also has support for Slack.

A large team of developers and DevOps engineers require a platform to collaborate in a work environment.

For this purpose, it’s possible to integrate Jenkins with Slack.

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It also offers various plugins that help in building, deploying, and automating any project.

According to the Jenkins community, there are around 1,500 plugins available for various applications.

To check that this port is accessible, you need toadjust firewall rules with UFW.

initial admin password file to access Jenkins is displayed

The file permissions dont allow a normal user to access it as it is a password file.

kick off the command line and trigger the following command to become a root user.

Install Plugins for Jenkins

Jenkins makes use of plugins for continuous integration.

Jenkins asking the user to provide admin password to get access

To install plugins, click onInstall suggested plugins.

This is the interface you’ll use to load the plugins.

Provide the username, password, and e-mail address to create the admin account.

Jenkins asking the user to install plugins

Now clickSave and Continue.

Once the account is created, you will be ready to use Jenkins.

Jenkins is installing plugins

Jenkins interface to create the first admin user by providing username, email and password

Jenkins interface is confirming that Jenkins is installed and ready to be used

Jenkins dashboard displayed after getting access