Installing Jenkins
There are different methods of installing Jenkins, and you should choose the one that best suits your needs. Let's walk through all the options you have and then describe the most common choices in detail:
- Servlet: Jenkins is written in Java and natively distributed as a web application in the WAR format, dedicated to running inside an application server (such as Apache Tomcat or GlassFish); consider this option if you deploy all your applications as servlets.
- Application: The Jenkins WAR file embeds the Jetty application server, so it can be directly run with the Java command, and therefore, the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is the only requirement to start Jenkins; consider this option if you use bare-metal servers and/or you need to install multiple Jenkins instances on one machine.
- Dedicated package: Jenkins is distributed for most operating systems in a form of dedicated packages (MSI for Windows, the Homebrew package for macOS, the deb...
