Jenkins-Configuration-as-Code

Pre-requisites:

• IAM user with AmazonEC2FullAccess role.
• aws cli installed on your local machine (preferaly, version awscli v2
• aws cli configured with IAM user.
• packer installed on your local machine.

N\B: I used us-west-2 as my region. Feel free to change it to what suits you.

Step 1: Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/Wach-E/Jenkins-Configuration-as-Code.git

Step 2: Navigate to the cloned repository

cd Jenkins-Configuration-as-Code

Step 3: Build Docker baked image with Packer

packer build template.json

Step 4: On completion of packer build, create an EC2 instance with the docker ami and upload the start.sh script as a user data N\B: port 8080 must be opened on your security group for access to Jenkins

Step 5: After the instance has been created, wait for 30 - 60 secs and then Navigate to http:server_ip:8080 to access your Jenkins server

I will really love to learn about a better approach as opposed to the waitime for the Jenkins server. A pull request on this will be awesome :)

TODO:

• Add a branch with the latest syntax for Packer with HCL. This article should help