As a developer, if have the access to servers, to monitor, start/stop, reading logs of SDL Microservice your life is very easy, but when we work in a cage environment and you don't have access to servers due to policies or your client has to follow certain standards such as "PCI" and stuff like that as a DEV you don't get the direct access on those machines.
Next is let's configure the Jenkins
Hit the URL in the http://localhost:8080 this is the default port on which Jenkins runs you can change that. It will ask you the first time login secret key.
Next is select the defaults option to configure the Jenkins
You can always install other plugins as well from the Manage Jenkins section
Once everything is configured you will see this screen
Next is create a job that will start/stop/restart the SDL microservice
I have created the following three jobs to stop/start and restart Tridion microservice using Powershell commands we can sh commands in case of LINUX.
Console output of Restart Deployer Service
For monitoring the health and traffic on the machine we can use Jenkins Monitoring feature.
Go to:- http://localhost:8080/monitoring
Here you will get the necessary information related to the system health using Jenkins, you can always use any other tool to do this.
Happy Coding and Keep Sharing!!!
Using Powershell, Yes we can do that, but what will happen when you don't have the permission to run Powershell as well and I worked on a project where, as a developer, I didn’t have the permission to run Powershell as well.
Well, In that case, we ask the DevOps to do this job for us because they are the one having all the access, but this could be a time-consuming process as well, log a ticket and then someone from DevOps address that and as a developer, we might be required to start/stop and see logs of Microservice multiple times.
There is another scenario where you have your content delivery on the Linux box, not all your developers are very familiar with the Linux commands.
As a best practice, we should always use proper tools in such a scenario, and today we will see how we can configure Jenkins to start/stop/restart SDL Microservices.
Installing Jenkins is really quick and it takes very less time to configure it.
1. Download Jenkins.
2. Open up a terminal in the download directory.
3. Run java -jar jenkins.war --httpPort=8080. Refer screenshot 1
4. Browse to http://localhost:8080.
5. Follow the instructions to complete the installation.
Installing Jenkins is really quick and it takes very less time to configure it.
1. Download Jenkins.
2. Open up a terminal in the download directory.
3. Run java -jar jenkins.war --httpPort=8080. Refer screenshot 1
4. Browse to http://localhost:8080.
5. Follow the instructions to complete the installation.
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| Run the Jenkins.war |
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| Jenkins is installed successfully and We have the initial password to login |
Hit the URL in the http://localhost:8080 this is the default port on which Jenkins runs you can change that. It will ask you the first time login secret key.
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| Initial password |
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| Default feature |
Once everything is configured you will see this screen
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| Jenkins is ready!! |
Next is create a job that will start/stop/restart the SDL microservice
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| Click on create new job |
I have created the following three jobs to stop/start and restart Tridion microservice using Powershell commands we can sh commands in case of LINUX.
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| Tridion Services |
Console output of Restart Deployer Service
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| Output |
For monitoring the health and traffic on the machine we can use Jenkins Monitoring feature.
Go to:- http://localhost:8080/monitoring
Here you will get the necessary information related to the system health using Jenkins, you can always use any other tool to do this.
Happy Coding and Keep Sharing!!!
