Jenkins java | Installing Jenkins on Windows

Jenkins is a DevOps tool that is developed in Java and Jenkins is a free and open-source tool for continuous integration and deployment.

Jenkins invites the developer to set up a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) environment. It has version control technologies like Git, Maven, and others that may be used to control the version.

In this post, we’ll go over the installation process, which is the initial step in learning Jenkins.

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Steps of Installing Jenkins on Windows

For Jenkins, we’ll use a war file. Tomcat is running on port 8084 in this step.

Download Jenkins war from Jenkins website Download
Copy the war file into Tomcat webapps folder
Start the tomcat and open Jenkins directory in browser
Find the administrator password from the given location
Paste the password to Administrator password text field
Skip Plugin Installation
Create Admin First user
Instance Configuration
Start using Jenkins
Jenkins is ready to use

Copy the war file into Tomcat webapps folder

Here you have to copy the downloaded war file to apache tomcat webapps folder then you have to start tomcat.

Copy the war files into Tomcat webapps folder

Start the tomcat and open Jenkins directory in browser

Find the administrator password from the given location as shown in Step 2 image

C:\Users\<user-name>\.jenkins\secrets\initialAdminPassword

Paste the password to Administrator password text field

To continue here you have to paste the administrator password that you copied in the above step.

Skip Plugin Installation

You can skip plugin installation for now. Press on Skip Plugin Installation button.

Create Admin First user

By choosing the “Skip and Continue as Admin” link, you may either create your own admin user or skip it entirely. Here, I’m establishing an admin user by filling in the essential details, as indicated in the image. Click the “Save and Continue” button after entering the user’s details.