Ansible automation for Jenkins on Vagrant instance

TL;DR features

• Jenkins server with docker and pipeline support
• Tweak variables in: roles/jenkins/defaults/main.yml
• Add new jobs to: roles/jenkins/files/jobs
• By default jenkins runs on port 8085
• No authorization needed
• No manual configuration required

Dependencies

• Vagrant
• Ansible >= 2.0

How to run?

• Check out repo
• Make sure to have installed the dependencies
• Run vagrant up jenkins
• Run Ansible: ansible-playbook -i inventory site.yml -k -b -K -u vagrant Password: vagrant
• Go to Jenkins UI: http://10.2.2.2:8085/ and run the build
• Test your application: http://10.2.2.2:8080/sample

Full description

inventory:

• defines servers

site.yml:

• assigns roles

Vagrantfile:

• Configures basic ubuntu vm with private ip: 10.2.2.2

roles/jenkins/defaults/main.yml:

• all the variables used by Jenkins are here

roles/jenkins/tasks/install.yml:

• configures java, jenkins, docker installation
• Adds global config and jobs configs

roles/jenkins/tasks/install-plugins.yml:

• installs plugins through Jenkins API

roles/jenkins/files/global-config.xml:

• main configuration file for Jenkins (altered to disable security)

roles/jenkins/files/jobs/super-duper-app:

• Jenkins job config. Creates a remote-pipeline project.
• Pipeline for java app deployed to docker demonstration here