Installing a standalone Jenkins server on Windows
Installing Jenkins on Windows is quite simple. Before performing the steps to install Jenkins on Windows, let's have a look at the prerequisites.
Prerequisites
Before we begin, make sure you have the following things ready:
- We need a machine with at least 4 GB of RAM and a Multi-core processor.
- Depending on how you manage the infrastructure in your team, the machine could be an instance on a cloud platform (such as AWS, DigitalOcean, or any other cloud platform), a bare metal machine, or it could be a VM (on VMware vSphere or any other server virtualization software).
- The machine should have any one of the latest Windows OS (Windows 7/8/10, Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2016) installed on it.
- Check for admin privileges; the installation might ask for admin username and password.
- Make sure port
8080
is open.
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Follow these steps to install Java:
- Download the latest version of Java JRE (x86 or x64 based on your OS) from https://java.com/en...