Overview
The Kurian Jenkins slave AMI is preloaded with most of the popular tools that are required to run variety of build jobs and automation tasks on Jenkins:
- Git Client
- Ant
- Maven
- Gradle
- Java OpenJDK 8 as the default Java installation
- OpenJDK releases from 9 through 14.
- GNU C/C++ compilers
- Go compiler
- Python 2.7 and 3.x
- Docker
- Node.js
- Ansible
- AWS CLI
- kubectl
All the tools are installed following official guidelines so you don't need to deal with any custom environment and you can build on the baseline build platform available on this AMI.
The build slaves spun up from this AMI work the best with Jenkins server created from Kurian's Jenkins Server line of AMIs, versions 2. 232 and above. Both Jenkins server and slave AMIs are available for all the major Linux distributions.
Highlights
- The Jenkins Slave AMI is loaded with tools and configured to work out of the box with any Jenkins master installation.
- Major build tools such as Ant, Maven and Gradle, language frameworks such as C/C++, Java, Node.js and Go, and build tools for AMI and Dokcer, are available out of the box.
- No custom installations and it is easy to do additional configurations to suit your requirements. Detailed documentation is available to use this AMI in a CI/CD pipeline to perform variety of DevOps tasks.
Details
Typical total price
$0.144/hour
Pricing
Free trial
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
---|---|---|---|
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.015 | $0.026 | $0.041 |
t2.small | $0.015 | $0.038 | $0.053 |
t2.medium | $0.015 | $0.075 | $0.09 |
t2.large | $0.015 | $0.122 | $0.137 |
t2.xlarge | $0.015 | $0.243 | $0.258 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.015 | $0.486 | $0.501 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.015 | $0.039 | $0.054 |
t3.small | $0.015 | $0.05 | $0.065 |
t3.medium | $0.015 | $0.07 | $0.085 |
t3.large | $0.015 | $0.112 | $0.127 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
No refund but 2 weeks free trial is available to try out the AMI.
Legal
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Content disclaimer
Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
The updated release of Jenkins Build Slave v2.4 AMI for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 with OS security patches applied by Kurian on February 14th, 2023.
Additional details
Usage instructions
- Spin up new instances using one-click from AWS console or aws cli or autoscaling options as your infrastructure provisioning process requires.
- Open network access on port 22 from Jenkins if the node will be connected using a SSH method.
- Refer AMI documentation for additional configuration steps specific to the method you like to use to connect the slave node to Jenkins server.
- SSH into the new node as ec2-user for doing any additional configuration.
- See the latest version of product documentation to learn more about the configuration options available.
- Customers can use this AMI to build and run applications. It is up to the application developers where and how to store any sensitive information and to encrypt data in rest and transit and, for any such requirements, the customers may have to customize this AMI to meet the needs as determined by the working of the applications. The AMI does not store any passwords or keys and it is up to the customers to rotate the secrets if that would be added as part of the customization. The AMI does not have any encrypted data that is needed to use OpenJDK.
Resources
Support
Vendor support
Report issues or request support via e-mail to contact@kurianinc.us . We will respond in 24 hours. Also, the issues with this AMI and enhancement requests could be filed at
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.