Ansible Jenkins Role

An Ansible role for installing and managing Jenkins CI. It can also install and update Jenkins plugins if configured.

Role Variables

• jenkins_version:

  • Description: Jenkins provides a stable version and a latest version of their software.
  • Values: stable | latest
  • Default: stable

• jenkins_cli_path:

  • Description: Path where the cli should be installed to.
  • Default: /usr/local/lib/jenkins

• jenkins_cli_url:

  • Description: URL where the cli can access the Jenkins server.
  • Default: http://127.0.0.1:8080

• jenkins_user_home:

  • Description: Path to home directory of the user running Jenkins.
  • Default: /var/lib/jenkins

• jenkins_install_plugins:

  • Description: Whether the plugins missing should be installed.
  • Values: yes | no
  • Default: yes

• jenkins_update_plugins:

  • Description: Whether the plugins installed and outdated should be updated.
  • Values: yes | no
  • Default: yes

• jenkins_plugins:

  • Description: List of plugins which should be installed (shortnames). Create a user e.g.https://jenkins.example.com/user/buildfarm/configure and copy the SSH Public Key of the Jenkins user into the web form.
  • Default: [git, github, subversion, thinBackup, greenballs, ws-cleanup, parameterized-trigger ]

• jenkins_pkg_state:

  • Description: Whether the packages should be just be installed or updated to latest.
  • Values: installed | latest
  • Default: installed

• jenkins_service_enabled:

  • Description: Whether the service should be started on boot or not.
  • Values: yes | no
  • Default: yes

• jenkins_service_started:

  • Description: Whether the service should be running.
  • Values: started | stopped
  • Default: started

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: jenkins-masters
  roles:
     - { role: resmo.jenkins }

License

BSD

Author Information

Arka Chatterjee