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Suresh Ayyanna
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Jenkins Basic

Jenkins is a powerful application that allows continuous integration and continuous delivery of project activities.

  • It is a free source that can handle any kind of build or continuous integration. You can integrate Jenkins with other tools.

Download Jenkins
Jenkins official link : https://www.jenkins.io/download/
If you click the given link, you can get the home page of the Jenkins official website as shown below. Download war file as highlighted below

Jenkins website

Starting Jenkins
Open the command prompt. From the command prompt, browse to the directory where the jenkins.war file is present.
Run the following command

D:\>Java –jar Jenkins.war
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After the command is run, various tasks will run automatically.

Once the processing is complete without major errors, the following line will come in the output of the command prompt.

INFO: Jenkins is fully up and running
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Accessing Jenkins

Once Jenkins is up and running, one can access Jenkins from the link − http://localhost:8080

This link will bring up the Jenkins dashboard.

Jenkins webpage

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Checkout next Blog for Advanced Jenkins with more info..!
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