On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:54 AM John Mellor <john.mel...@esentire.com> wrote:
> 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. > > Personally, I would choose the Jenkins provided operating system specific installer (deb for Ubuntu, deb for Debian, rpm for CentOS, rpm for Red Hat, rpm for OpenSUSE) rather than the operating system vendor's bundled Jenkins (if they choose to bundle it). The operating system version is either too outdated (as was the case in Debian some years ago), or is based on weekly, when I want the long term support release. The advice from jieryn (use the Jenkins repository flavor) works for Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, OpenSUSE, and likely FreeBSD. The OpenBSD specific package seems quite far out of date, so there you'd need the war file rather than using the operating system specific installer. Mark Waite > > 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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/1499792036.3165.5.camel%40esentire.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/1499792036.3165.5.camel%40esentire.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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtHEhVCYhefrXqwbTC63VhgjoOrEs_X%2BusOeGwKfjd9diA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
