Installing Jenkins

We already automated Jenkins installation so that it provides all the features we need out-of-the-box. Therefore, the exercises that follow should be very straightforward. If you are a Docker for Mac or Windows, minikube, or minishift user, we'll need to bring back up the VM we suspended in the previous chapter. Feel free to skip the commands that follow if you are hosting your cluster in AWS or GCP.

 1  cd cd/docker-build
 2
 3  vagrant up
 4
 5  cd ../../
 6
 7  export DOCKER_VM=true

If you prefer running your cluster in AWS with kops or EKS, we'll need to retrieve the AMI ID we stored in docker-ami.log in the previous chapter.

 1  AMI_ID=$(grep 'artifact,0,id' \
 2      cluster/docker-ami.log \
 3      | cut -d: -f2)
 4
 5  echo $AMI_ID

If GKE is your cluster of choice, we'll need to define variables G_PROJECT and G_AUTH_FILE which...