How To Run Jenkins on Azure VM

A Beginner’s Guide to Jenkins on Azure

Jenkins is one of the common tools you would see in any company’s DevOps strategy. Pipeline as a code is one of the sought-after skills you need to learn if you are really into DevOps. From building your application to deploying them in different environments, Jenkins can take care of the end-to-end pipeline. You can even design a pipeline for the entire process.

Jenkins uses Domain-specific language based on groovy to define declarative pipelines. In this post, we will see how to install and run Jenkins on Azure VM.

• Jenkins Prerequisites
• Azure Prerequisites
• Creating a VM Instance
• Connect to Instance Using SSH
• Install Jenkins on VM
• Access Jenkins From Internet
• Setup Jenkins
• Configure Reverse Proxy
• Summary
• Conclusion

Jenkins Prerequisites

The only prerequisite for Jenkins to work on your machine is Java. You need to install Java and another way of running Jenkins through Docker. We will cover that in a separate article. You can install open JDK with the following link. You can also go…