Install Jenkins on RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 - How to setup Jenkins on RHEL

How to Install Jenkins on RedHat Enterprise Linux 8?

Please find below steps for setting up Jenkins on RHEL 8.

update package

sudo yum update

Install wget
sudo yum install wget -y

Java Installation

Download Java from Oracle site.

sudo wget --no-check-certificate --no-cookies --header 'Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie' 'http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u141-b15/336fa29ff2bb4ef291e347e091f7f4a7/jdk-8u141-linux-x64.rpm'

Install from RPM
sudo  rpm -i jdk-8u141-linux-x64.rpm

Add Jenkins repository to yum repository

sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins.repo
sudo rpm --import https://jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins-ci.org.key

Install Jenkins
sudo yum install jenkins -y

Start Jenkins
sudo service jenkins start
sudo service jenkins status

Get Jenkins Admin Password
sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Copy the output of the above command.
Now go to browser and access the Jenkins page.

http://dns_name:8080

Your page will look something like this. Now paste the password into the below Administrator password text box.

Press Continue..Click on install suggested plug-ins..

 Install suggested plug-ins.