Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment, concepts and terms which works together to automate the lifecycle of apps, in this regard if you want to implement a CI / CD, Jenkins could be the main tool to establish a server to automate this process.

This repository is a simple task to deploy a Jenkins taking AWS amazon as IaaS. For getting a big picture we are going to install Jenkins and its plugins, register a user, set up a basic security rule and finally insert a job as example so, let’s elaborate further this idea.

Install environment

Get in your bastion machine in AWS amazon and install terrafom tool to deploy your enviroment with the follows command lines:

$ curl -O https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.12.13/terraform_0.12.13_linux_amd64.zip

$ sudo unzip terraform_0.12.13_linux_amd64.zip -d /usr/bin/

$ terraform -v

Start up your server

Download the project and make sure your set up your information in the follows properties which are in the file variables.tf:

• access_key: your personal access key AWS amazon
• secret_key: your personal secret key AWS amazon
• jenkins_key_name: publickey file name which is used to access via SSH

Please go to the base project and execute the follow command line:

$ terraform plan

$ terraform apply

Command plan is useful to watch some error and have a deploy plan, once the plan is checked please confirm the process execute the apply command.

Turn off your service

Please go to the base project and execute the follow command line:

$ terraform destroy