Vagrant Jenkins build

Run a Jenkins 2.83 (unstable) instance on CentOS/7.4.1708 using vagrant and libvirt with QEMU/KVM as hypervisor. QEMU qemu-system-x86-2.0.0 package from EPEL has nvme device emulation.

Prerequisites

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• Vagrant libvirt plugin
• How to setup Jenkins on RedHat

Installation

Install Vagrant libvirt plugin

sudo vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt
export VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER=libvirt

Preload centos/7 Vagrant box to reduce time of first vagrant up command

sudo vagrant box add centos/7

Clone the git repo into jenkins directory, so Vagrant will give jenkins_master name to the VM:

[email protected]:yshestakov/vagrant-centos7-jenkins.git jenkins

Build the vagrant box

sudo vagrant up 

To access the Jenkins server

http://localhost:8080

or, add the following line to the hosts file

127.0.0.1   jenkins.local

and then run the server with

http://jenkins.local:8080

First time accessing Jenkins

Since version 2.0 Jenkins has a security setup wizard when first running it after the installation.

SSH into the machine with

sudo vagrant ssh

Locate the security password

cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

and copy it into the password field on the Jenkins server.