Jenkins by Bitnami

The good folks at Bitnami have made a large number of applications available via VM’s for all the major cloud platforms.  One of my favorite CI tools is Jenkins, which as you guessed Bitnami offers multiple VM’s and local images.   If your sys admins don’t have time to set up a Jenkins server for you, then you can easily deploy Jenkins to AWS or Azure or Digital Ocean.. you name it.

In this post we are going to show you how easy it is to set this up on Azure.  It’s just as easy on all other providers.  One of the advantages of Azure is that your server will have the hostname DNS resolvable without the need for a static IP.

Here are the steps.

1. Sign up for Azure
2. Sign up for a Bitnami account.
3. Open the following URL.
4. Follow the simple steps to get the .publishsettings file.  Then, Select the Machine size and region.
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5. Create the Jenkins Server.  Don’t forget to name your server something meaningful.
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6. Server is being Created.
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7. Server is created…
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Once the server is created, login to your Jenkins server and start configuring “Items”.  This was a breeze! Thank you Bitnami.