04.System Administration.md

System Administration

• Backing Up files and folders necessary for Jenkins to run

• Restore strategy

• Monitoring Jenkins

• Scaling Jenkins Servers as per requirement

• Manage Jenkins

Backups

• Types of backup styles :

  • Full Backup

  • Snapshots

  • Detrimental Backup

• Files to backup :

  • $JENKINS_HOME (contains 90% of important stuff)

    • Config files (config.xml)

    • Jobs (pipelines)

• You can backup jenkins by:

  • Taking snapshots of your filesystem

  • Plugins for Backup (Eg: ThinBackup plugin)

  • Running a shell script to backup jenkins instance

Monitor Jenkins

• You can use several plugins to monitor Jenkins

• Eg: using Prometheus