My first two installations of Jenkins were on RHEL 6.x (old company standard image) and the issues I used to have there is why I moved to Ubuntu. (future company standard image)
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:37 AM Jason LeMauk < [email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for sharing your experience! > > > > The company is leaning towards not using Ubuntu / Debian, however we can > still use it as our native operating system hosting our Jenkins instance if > it is best practice / required. I have my own personal Jenkins instance > setup on an Ubuntu machine and agree that the Ubuntu approach has been > pretty straight forward. > > > > Does anybody have any experience installing / maintaining Jenkins on a > non-Debian / non-Ubuntu Linux operating system (with Red Hat / Fedora / > CentOS ruled out)? > > I am trying to discern whether or not we are relegated to a Debian / > Ubuntu base operating system to host our Jenkins instance on (keeping in > mind that Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS is ruled out). It should probably be > noted that we will likely install / upgrade on the Jenkins LTS release > schedule. > > Thanks again for any advice or guidance! > > - Jason > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Peter Berghold > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 11, 2017 10:28 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Installing / maintaining Jenkins on a Linux host machine > > > > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAArvnv22Md4_0YZdgOuAE%2BpZs9Vu3g0BdHJn5qm%2BnemwoAv5sg%40mail.gmail.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/BY2PR12MB0599FD755ED454A44A65580589AE0%40BY2PR12MB0599.namprd12.prod.outlook.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/BY2PR12MB0599FD755ED454A44A65580589AE0%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. 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