How to move Jenkins from one system to another

Question

Hi Guys,

I have configured Jenkins. I want to clone all the environment in a different system. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@MD,

You can move your Jenkins server to a different system. Just follow the below-given steps.

• Install a fresh Jenkins instance on the new server.

• Be sure the old and the new Jenkins instances are stopped.

• Archive all the content of the JENKINS_HOME of the old Jenkins instance.

• Extract the archive into the new JENKINS_HOME directory.

• Launch the new Jenkins instance.

• Do not forget to change documentation/links to your new instance of Jenkins.

• Do not forget to change the owner of the new Jenkins files.

 $ chown -R jenkins:jenkins $JENKINS_HOME.