Automation - Guy Harwood

Automation

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Manually installing Jenkins Slave as a service on Windows

Manually installing Jenkins Slave as a service on Windows

One option of installing a Jenkins slave on Windows is to install it as a windows service. This has the added benefit of automatic startup and running under the credentials of a service account if you so wish. The documented process [https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Step+by+step+

Upgrading Jenkins on Windows

Upgrading Jenkins on Windows

This procedure is the same for other operating systems, yet many windows users end up looking for an msi installer, mistakenly thinking that it should be updated in the same way as a traditional windows application. Jenkins is a java application, and is distributed in a war archive file called

Chocolatey Package Manager for Windows

Chocolatey Package Manager for Windows

Setting up a fresh dev box with all your favourite tools is something that every developer should automate. This is fairly straightforward on OSX and Linux thanks to the great package management ecosystem, but support for this on Windows has historically been poor, until some genius called Rob Reynolds [http: