Install and configure Jenkins with Nginx as a reverse proxy on CentOS 7

Install and configure Jenkins with Nginx as a reverse proxy on CentOS

Jenkins is an open source continuous integration tool written in Java. The project was forked from Hudson after a dispute with Oracle.

Jenkins provides continuous integration services for software development. It is a server-based system running in a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat. It supports SCM tools including AccuRev, CVS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Perforce, Clearcase and RTC, and can execute Apache Ant and Apache Maven based projects as well as arbitrary shell scripts and Windows batch commands. The primary developer of Jenkins is Kohsuke Kawaguchi. Released under the MIT License, Jenkins is free software.

Builds can be started by various means, including being triggered by commit in a version control system, by scheduling via a cron-like mechanism, by building when other builds have completed, and by requesting a specific build URL.

REQUIREMENTS

Login to your VPS via SSH

ssh user@vps_IP

UPDATE THE SYSTEM

Make sure your server is fully up to date:

yum update

INSTALL JAVA AND NGINX

Your next step is to install Nginx along some needed dependencies and the nano text editor so you can edit some config files. Of course, you can use your favorite text editor.

Install the official Nginx repository for CentOS 7 and then install Nginx, nano etc… Use the below commands to do that:

# rpm -Uvh http://nginx.org/packages/centos/7/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-7-0.el7.ngx.noarch.rpm

# yum install nginx wget nano

Start Nginx and enable it to start on boot:

# systemctl start nginx

# systemctl enable nginx

Now create a host directive for the domain from which you will access Jenkins. Open a file, let’s say called 'your_domain.conf' in the '/etc/nginx/conf.d/' directory:

# nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/your_domain.conf

Paste the following:

upstream jenkins {
    server 127.0.0.1:8080;
}

server {
    listen      80 default;
    server_name your_jenkins_site.com;

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/jenkins.access.log;
    error_log   /var/log/nginx/jenkins.error.log;

    proxy_buffers 16 64k;
    proxy_buffer_size 128k;

    location / {
        proxy_pass  http://jenkins;
        proxy_next_upstream error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;
        proxy_redirect off;

        proxy_set_header    Host            $host;
        proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-Proto https;
    }

}

Replace the 'your_jenkins_site.com' value with your own domain, save and close the file.

Test if the Nginx configuration is OK:

# nginx -t

If everything is OK, restart Nginx for the changes to take effect:

# service nginx restart

Since Jenkins is built with Java, let’s install it with the yum package manager:

# yum install java

# java -version

openjdk version "1.8.0_71"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_71-b15)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.71-b15, mixed mode)

INSTALL JENKINS

Download the Jenkins repo and install Jenkins with the following commands:

# wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat-stable/jenkins.repo

# rpm --import https://jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins-ci.org.key

# yum install jenkins

Start the Jenkins server and enable it to start on boot with:

# service jenkins start

# systemctl enable jenkins

Congratulations, you have successfully installed Jenkins..

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