I migrated my Jenkins installation over to Ubuntu from RHEL and haven't looked back. My drivers may be different than yours and my reason was I am using Jenkins to perform CI on my Puppet environment. Part of that is running some tests on the Puppet code before it is deployed and this works *much* better on Ubuntu that Red Hat which was getting rather McGiverish given all the hacks I did to get it to work.
So I guess YMMV depending on what you are trying to accomplish. If you are doing this in a corporate environment make sure with the powers that be whatever solution you pick meets with your list of acceptable solutions. On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:18 AM Jason LeMauk < [email protected]> wrote: > We are currently provisioning a physical server as our automation server. > We are making considerations as far as what our native operating system > should be on this physical machine. > > > > We are going to use a Linux OS as our operating system. From the Jenkins > download page, https://jenkins.io/download/, I can see that Jenkins’ > package distribution is available to Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS (which we > will not be using), as well as Ubuntu / Debian. I also notice that a > Generic Java package (WAR) distribution is available. > > > > Am I correct in assuming that if we use a non-Ubuntu / non-Debian > operating system, we can still install Jenkins via the WAR distribution > without issue? > > Are we relegated to using Debian / Ubuntu if we’re going to install > Jenkins on a Linux machine (with the possibility of Red Hat / Fedora / > CentOS ruled out)? > > > > Thanks for any guidance from anybody who may have experience installing / > maintaining a Jenkins instance on a Linux machine! > > > > - Jason > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/BY2PR12MB0599526179AD04C5679959E489AE0%40BY2PR12MB0599.namprd12.prod.outlook.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/BY2PR12MB0599526179AD04C5679959E489AE0%40BY2PR12MB0599.namprd12.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAArvnv22Md4_0YZdgOuAE%2BpZs9Vu3g0BdHJn5qm%2BnemwoAv5sg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
