A Beginner’s Guide to Jenkins — Setups

A new start of an exciting journey through Jenkins

routerhan
4 min readAug 28, 2023

Welcome to the new start of an exciting journey through Jenkins! In this series, we’ll dive into the process of setting up Jenkins from scratch in a Docker container.

We’ll also learn how to create a multi-branch pipeline and connect it with a Git repository.

Along the way, I’ll guide you through the creation of different types of credentials in Jenkins. At the end, we’ll delve into the basics of a Jenkinsfile, which holds the key to configuring our multi-branch pipeline.

Let’s dive in!

Setup Jenkins in Docker Container

As the first step, we are going to run Jenkins in a docker container.

If you are new to Docker, please check out this series:

To begin, let’s make sure we’re using an official Jenkins image from Docker Hub.

Opt for a newer Jenkins version to ensure compatibility with a wide array of plugins.

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routerhan
routerhan

Written by routerhan

R&D Software Engineer @IBM Germany. This blog is an independent research of cloud computing.