Running Jenkins on AWS

Learn how to run Jenkins on Amazon Web Services. Find out how to move a Jenkins instance to the cloud, connect with webhooks, deploy to Elastic Beanstalk, and more.

Introduction

• Running Jenkins on AWS
• What you should know
• What's new in this update

1. Set Up Jenkins

• Create a security group
• Create a key pair
• Create the Jenkins EC2 instance
• Install Java, Jenkins, NGINX
• Configure NGINX
• Configure Jenkins
• Challenge: Set up a Jenkins master server
• Solution: Set up a Jenkins master server

2. Create a Build Environment

• Plan the build environment
• Create an IAM role for the build server
• Create a security group and key pair for the build server
• Create the build server
• Connect the Jenkins master to the build server
• Challenge: Set up a build server
• Solution: Set up a build server

3. Connect Jenkins with Webhooks

• Plan the CI/CD pipeline
• What's a webhook?
• Create and test a webhook
• Challenge: Connect Jenkins to GitHub
• Solution: Connect Jenkins to GitHub

4. Deployment to Elastic Beanstalk

• Create an Elastic Beanstalk application
• Download the application code
• Create a GitHub repository for the application code
• Create a freestyle job to deploy code from GitHub, part 1
• Create a freestyle job to deploy code from GitHub, part 2
• Deploy to Elastic Beanstalk from GitHub
• Challenge: Deploy to Elastic Beanstalk from GitHub
• Solution: Deploy to Elastic Beanstalk from GitHub

5. Shutting Down AWS Resources

• Stop or remove AWS resources
• Challenge: Decommission your Jenkins servers
• Solution: Decommission your Jenkins servers

Conclusion

• Next steps