Managing Security Settings And Access Controls In Jenkins: A Step-By-Step Guide
Step 1: Access Jenkins Dashboard
- Download and Start the jenkins server in your system. For Setuping Jenkins Server Refer this – Article
- Once the jenkins server is started, then access the jenkins server through your browser with your IP and port number in the following format:
http://{IP_Address}:8080
- Log in to your Jenkins instance with the administrative username and password.
Step 2: Install Required Plugins
- Install all required Plugins in Jenkins if not already installed.
- One of the required Plugin is “Matrix Authorization Strategy Plugin” and “Role-based Authorization Strategy Plugin”.
- You can install plugin from the Jenkins dashboard by navigating to “Manage Jenkins” -> “Manage Plugin” -> “Available” , then search for and install the required plugins.
Step 3: Accessing Jenkins Security Settings
- Log into Jenkins as an administrator.
- Navigate to “Manage Jenkins” , and then to “Confgure Global Security”.
Step 4: Configure Your Authentication Model
- Choose an authentication method for the users.
- Configure the authentication provider as per you need or the organization need.
Step 5: Setting Authorization
- Choose the type of authorization, that is matrix-based, role-based.
- Setup permission for different user roles from the authorization.
Step 6: Securing Indivdual project
- Install and configure “Project based Matrix Authorization Strategy” plugin.
- Navigate to project based configuration.
- Enable and define project-based security.
- Define specific permission for different users or roles.
Managing Security Settings And Access Controls In Jenkins
In IT Technologies, the companies are looking to bring the agileness in the software development workflow. To market and business their ideas into services to reach to their customers quicker and have competitive edge on the market. Because of this, Companies have shifting to DevOps culture to automated the workflow end to end completely with pipelines. Jenkins is the one of popular CI/CD pipeline tool and managing the security settings and acess controls are essential. In this article we will discuss on the effective management of jenkins security settings and access management controls.