Just as a note, the WAR is not an installable thing. It's similar to a Java JAR file, you "execute" the WAR file to run Jenkins. You can run the WAR on any OS that has Java simply by doing java -jar PATH/TO/jenkins.war. There are some command line options you can provide, but in general you are just running the WAR file.
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:44 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? > > · If we are not able to install via WAR 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)? > > It should probably be noted that we will likely install / upgrade on the > Jenkins > LTS release schedule <https://jenkins.io/changelog-stable/>. > > 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/BY2PR12MB0599BE30A44301EF9566D3A689AE0%40BY2PR12MB0599.namprd12.prod.outlook.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/BY2PR12MB0599BE30A44301EF9566D3A689AE0%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/CAPiUgVc24MHXmheoGGze2xpjHzuzfTOAgiijtc9R75N%2Bc%3DdRuQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
