wannacfuture/jenkins-ansible-role

Provision Jenkins Server and Configure with Terraform and Ansible Role.

Jenkins Server Provisioning with Ansible Role

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🎯 About

Jenkins Server Provisioning with Ansible Role. Checkout the main.yml file for steps to use this role.

✨ Contents

• 🎯 About
• ✨ Contents
• 🚀 Technologies
• ✅ Requirements
• 🏁 Starting
• 🚀 Usage
• 💄 Groovy Script
• 📝 License
• 👷 Author Information

🚀 Technologies

The following tools were used in this project:

• Terraform
• Ansible

✅ Requirements

Before starting 🏁, you need to have Git and Terraform installed on your machine.

🏁 Starting

# Clone the project
git clone https://github.com/devenes/jenkins-server-ansible-role.git

# Access the project folder
cd jenkins-server-ansible-role

# Edit your backend, variables and initialize terraform
terraform init

# Run the project with terraform
terraform apply -auto-approve

🚀 Usage

• Check if Ansible is installed and connected to your hosts

ansible all --list-hosts
ansible all -m ping -o

• Initialize Ansible role with using Ansible Galaxy

ansible-galaxy init roles/jenkins_build

• Encrypt the Jenkins server login password with using Ansible Vault

ansible-vault encrypt secret.yml
# You can encrypt the password with:
# ansible-vault decrypt secret.yml

• Run the project playbook with Ansible

ansible-playbook play.yml --ask-vault-pass

• Write the Jenkins job to the xml file with using Ansible as management tool

ansible all -b -m shell -a "sudo java -jar /root/jenkins-cli.jar -s http://localhost:8080/ -auth @/root/jenkinsauth get-job "job_template" > /root/job.xml"

• Get the Jenkins job

ansible all -b -m shell -a "cat /root/job.xml"

• Get the Jenkins Password

ansible all -m shell -a "sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword"

💄 Groovy Script

Write the Groovy script to create the login credentials for the Jenkins server with using Ansible as automation tool.

import jenkins.model.*
import hudson.security.*

def instance = Jenkins.getInstance()

println "--> creating local user 'admin'"

def hudsonRealm = new HudsonPrivateSecurityRealm(false)
hudsonRealm.createAccount('admin', '{{ admin_pass }}')
instance.setSecurityRealm(hudsonRealm)

def strategy = new FullControlOnceLoggedInAuthorizationStrategy()
strategy.setAllowAnonymousRead(false)
instance.setAuthorizationStrategy(strategy)
instance.save()

📝 License

This project is under license from Apache 2.0. For more details, see the LICENSE file.

👷 Author Information

Made with ❤️ by devenes

 

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