Here’s what you need and might want to change. Anyway, you need to modify default plist file for Launch Agent.

I’m not quite sure why default configuration doesn’t account for this, probably this is Mac specific and other operating systems are OK. This seems to be a common issue with JVM and Mac OS X, Bamboo installations run into same problems. Very soon you should get an error message saying that Jenkins has ran out of memory. Give it a go, create a couple of build projects that do some basics like checking out git repository and running simple build command. To understand why you need to change plist try to run Jenkins server. Now you also have manual control over Jenkins installation and can start/stop it from command line. For this reason I pin Homebrew formula to prevent Homebrew from upgrading Jenkins files. My recommendation is to copy it instead of making a symbolic link.Įven more, once installed via Homebrew I then delegate Jenkins upgrades to Jenkins itself. That means if you ever upgrade Jenkins via Homebrew all your changes in plist will be lost. As you will see next you will need to modify that file. This recommends you to symlink Jenkins launch agent plist file to ~/Library/LaunchAgents but I would advise against it. Jenkins will be installed to usr/local and Homebrew will actually tell you right away how to turn it into a Launch Agent. You will need JDK to be installed and configured on your Mac before proceeding. In this article I will stick with Homebrew. It mentions Docker though and I’ve heard nothing but good things about Docker. Jenkins Wiki offers a list of options for Jenkins installation but doesn’t mention Mac OS X.

For detailed reasoning checkout out this article. InstallĪ kind of warning first, avoid installing Jenkins as Launch Daemon. But if it’s not the case you might’ve just landed on a page that has something to help you out. If your company is big and you are lucky enough the Dev Support or Dev Ops team will do all the heavy-lifting and install it for you. So you want to have Continuous Integration for Mobile in your company and your final choice of CI server is Jenkins. A guide for setting up a Jenkins CI server on Mac OS X machine.

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