<p><a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> is a Debian Linux-based

<a href="/operating-systems.html">operating system</a> distribution often used for

<a href="/learning-programming.html">Python development</a> and

<a href="/deployment.html">web application deployment</a>.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/" style="border: none;"><img src="/source/static/img/logos/ubuntu-linux.png" width="100%" alt="Official Ubuntu logo. Copyright Canonical Ltd." class="technical-diagram"></a></p>

<p><a href="/jenkins.html">Jenkins</a> is a common CI server for building and

<p>Jenkins is commonly used as a continuous integration server implementation

for Python projects because it is open source and programming language

agnostic. Learn more via the following resources or on

<a href="/jenkins.html">the dedicated Jenkins page</a>.</p>

<p><a href="https://medium.com/@mondaini/assembling-a-continuous-integration-service-for-a-django-project-on-jenkins-5f979d4c4184">Assembling a continuous integration service for a Django project on Jenkins</a>

shows how to set up a Ubuntu instance with a Jenkins server that'll build a

<a href="/django.html">Django</a> project.</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-15/materials/eu-15-Mittal-Continuous-Intrusion-Why-CI-Tools-Are-An-Attackers-Best-Friend.pdf">Continuous Intrusion: Why CI tools are a hacker's best friend</a> (PDF)

strongly advises securing your continuous integration server just as you

would every other part of your production application, unless you want

your environment to be vulnerable to malicious actors.</p>

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</ul>

<h1>Jenkins</h1>

<p><a href="https://jenkins.io/">Jenkins</a> is a

<a href="/continuous-integration.html">continuous integration</a> (CI) server often

used to automate building, <a href="/testing.html">testing</a> and

<a href="/deployment.html">deploying</a> Python applications.</p>

<p><a href="https://jenkins.io/" style="border: none;"><img src="/source/static/img/logos/jenkins.png" width="100%" alt="Official Jenkins CI logo. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License." class="technical-diagram"></a></p>

<div class="well see-also">Jenkins is an implementation of the <a href="/continuous-integration.html">continuous integration</a> concept. Learn more in the <a href="/deployment.html">deployment</a> chapter or view the <a href="/table-of-contents.html">table of contents</a> for all topics.</div>

<h3>Jenkins resources</h3>

<ul>

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<p><a href="https://medium.com/@mondaini/assembling-a-continuous-integration-service-for-a-django-project-on-jenkins-5f979d4c4184">Assembling a continuous integration service for a Django project on Jenkins</a>

shows how to set up a Ubuntu instance with a Jenkins server that'll build a

<a href="/django.html">Django</a> project.</p>

</li>

<li>

<p>My book on <a href="http://www.deploypython.com/">deploying Python web applications</a>

walks through every step of setting up a Jenkins project with a WSGI

application to enable continuous delivery. Take a look if you're not

grokking all of the steps provided in these other blog posts.</p>

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<p><a href="http://michal.karzynski.pl/blog/2014/04/19/continuous-integration-server-for-django-using-jenkins/">Setting up Jenkins as a continuous integration server for Django</a>

is another solid tutorial that also shows how to send email notifications

as part of the build process.</p>

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<p>If you're running into difficulty adding an SSH key to your Jenkins system

account so you can connect to another server or Git repository

<a href="http://dcycleproject.org/blog/51/connecting-jenkins-and-git">this blog post on connecting Jenkins with Git</a>

to get the steps to solve that problem.</p>

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<p><a href="http://chromaticsites.com/blog/automated-servers-and-deployments-ansible-jenkins">Automated Servers and Deployments with Ansible &amp; Jenkins</a>

covers the benefits of using the

<a href="/configuration-management.html">configuration management tool</a> Ansible in

combination with Jenkins.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.catosplace.net/blog/2015/02/11/running-jenkins-in-docker-containers/">Running Jenkins in Docker Containers</a>

is a short tutorial showing how to use the official

<a href="https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/jenkins/">Jenkins container</a> on the

Docker hub.</p>

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<p><a href="https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Securing+Jenkins">Securing Jenkins</a>

is the landing page for Jenkins security. If you're deploying your own

instance, you'll need to lock it down against unauthorized users.</p>

</li>

<li>

<p><a href="http://engineering.simondata.com/can-we-use-jenkins-for-that">Can we use Jenkins for that?</a>

looks at how one team uses Jenkins for more than typical continuous

integration situations - they also use it as an administrative interface,

cron jobs, data analytics pipelines and long-running scripts.</p>

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