Install Jenkins On Ubuntu 18

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Install Jenkins

In this tutorial, we are going to see, how to install Jenkins on Ubuntu 18. Jenkins is a very popular tool in the software industry. Jenkins is a leading open source automation server, which provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying, and automating any project.

Jenkins is available for various Linus operating systems.

1. Debian/Ubuntu
2. Fedora
3. Red Hat / CentOS

Prerequisites:

1. Minimum hardware requirements => 256 MB of RAM and 1 GB of drive space.
2. Recommended hardware configuration => 4 GB+ of RAM and 50 GB+ of drive space
3. Java

1.Install Java

Jenkins requires Java. If you don’t have it on your machine, then you have to install Java.

Type the below command on your terminal and if the command returns some version information, then Java is already installed on your machine and you can get the version from the output.

java -version

Expected Output:

java version "1.8.0_121"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM…