Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) of ASP.NET Core Application on Azure Web App using Jenkins - Day Two

3. Provide the needed information on the form and click OK.
   
   
   

• Name: A meaningful name for your Jenkins server.
• User name: provide a user name that could be used as an admin user for Jenkins server machine.
• Authentication type: You can choose the SSH key or password. I chose Password, so provide a password that you can remember and confirm password as well.
• Subscription: Select your Azure subscription.
• Resource group: You can create a new or use an existing resource group. I have created a new one named JenkinsConfigRSG.
• Location: Choose a location for the Jenkins server.

4. Fill in the additional settings form.
   
   
   

• Size: Choose the size of the Jenkins server. I chose the smallest one for the demo purpose.
• VM disk type: Choose SSD.
• Virtual network: This is optional, leave it for now.
• Subnets: Configure subnets name and press OK.
• Public IP address: You can leave it as default or provide your own name.
• Domain name label: Provide a name that additionally will append the cloudapp URL to Jenkins VM. I gave it the name “jenkinsintegration”.
• Jenkins release type: Choose the desired release type. I chose LTS.
• JDK Type: Choose Zulu.
  
  
  

5. In integration settings, choose 'no' to enable cloud agents.
   
   
   

6. Click OK to complete. On the Summary, verify details and click OK.
7. On the Buy page, read the terms and click Create. It will take some time to create and deploy a Jenkins server.
   
   
   

Unlock Jenkins

1. On the portal, navigate to the newly created Jenkins resource group.
   
   
   

2. On the resource group page, click on the newly created Jenkins virtual machine.
   
   
   

3. We see that the operating system here is Linux as we deployed our Jenkins server on Linux and we’ll use Linux way to unlock Jenkins. Copy the DNS name of the VM.
   
   
   

4. Open the browser on your machine and browse the copied DNS name. This will open a Jenkins page where you get the SSH string. Copy that string.
   
   
   

5. Open the command prompt and in the copied SSH string, replace the “username” part with the name of the Jenkins VM user name. In our case, it is “Jenkins”. We provided that in Basic settings while creating a Jenkins server. Now paste that modified string to the command prompt and press enter.
   
   
   
   
6. This will ask you to provide the password for Jenkins VM. Enter the password that we provided while creating the Jenkins server and press enter. This will login to the Jenkins VM i.e. the Linux machine and open an SSH session. We can now use the Linux commands on this terminal.
   
   To unlock Jenkins, we need an admin password from the installed Jenkins on the Linux machine. Type the command “sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword” to retrieve the initial admin password as shown below.
   
   
   

7. Now on your local machine, again browse to the URL http://localhost:8080, this will show the unlock Jenkins screen, provide the retrieved password in the last step and unlock Jenkins. Click Continue.
   
   
   
   
8. On getting started page, install suggested plugins i.e. the default option.
   
   
   
   
   

9. Provide details for creating an admin user.
   
   
   

Conclusion