There are competing update philosophies to consider: Ubuntu ships the latest (unstable) release of Jenkins all the time, while RedHat/CentOS/etc ships the stable version. I host on a Ubuntu VM, but definitely wish it was better tested. If stability is key, then Ubuntu may not be your best choice.
On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 16:44 +0000, Jason LeMauk 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/1499792036.3165.5.camel%40esentire.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
