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Palak Bhawsar

Mar 22, 2023 · 6 min read

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In this article, we will be creating an automated CI/CD pipeline for your Java
project using Jenkins, Docker, and AWS. With this pipeline, your project will be
automatically built, tested, and deployed to your AWS EC2 instance every time
you push code to your GitHub repository.

Prerequisite:

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GitHub and DockerHub account

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AWS account and knowledge of EC2 Instances
Knowledge of Jenkins, Docker, and Maven

Step 1: Setup Jenkins Server

First set up the Jenkins server to create a pipeline. Launch an EC2 instance and
install Java and Jenkins into it. Follow this article to set up a Jenkins server.
You need to install Maven and Docker as well. Maven to build the Java project
and Docker to build the docker image in Jenkins. SSH into your instance and
install maven and Docker using the below commands. For Jenkins, I am using an
Ubuntu instance.

COPY

# Install Maven in Jenkins

sudo apt-get install maven -y
## Update packages
sudo apt-get update
## Install Docker
sudo apt-get install docker.io -y
## Add Jenkins user to Docker group
sudo usermod -a -G docker jenkins

Set JAVA_HOME and MAVEN_HOME using the below commands. To set the
variable permanently, you should add it to the .bashrc file in your home
directory.

COPY

echo "export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64" >> ~/.bashrc

echo "export MAVEN_HOME=/usr/share/maven" >> ~/.bashrc

1.1. Install Plugins

Install plugins to integrate Jenkins with GitHub, Maven, and EC2. Go to Manage
Jenkins, and select Manage plugins. Under available plugins search for the
below plugins and Install without restart

1. Git
2. Pipeline maven integration
3. Pipeline stage view
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4. SSH Agent

1.2. Configure Java and Maven in Jenkins

Go to Manage Jenkins, select Global tool configuration, and scroll down to add
JDK and Maven path that we exported in the above steps as shown below.
Uncheck the Install automatically checkbox, Give Name and Path and click
Save.

1.3. Create Webhook

Webhook in Jenkins triggers the pipeline automatically when any changes are
done in the GitHub repository like commit and push. Go to Jenkins dashboard
and copy the URL in the browser. Now go to GitHub repository settings. In the
left pane select Webhooks.

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Click Add webhook and paste the Jenkins URL in the Payload URL by
appending the URL with /github-webhook/ as shown below. Select the events
when you want to trigger the pipeline, I have selected Just the push event and
click Add webhook.

Step 2: Add DockerHub credential

in Jenkins
To build and push the Docker image to DockerHub, we need to add docker
credentials in Jenkins. Go to your DockerHub account and select the dropdown
near username and click Account settings.

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Click Security in the left panel and click New Access Token. Give a description
and click Generate. Copy the token and close. Keep this token as we will be
adding this to the Jenkins credential in the next steps.

Go to the Jenkins dashboard -> Manage Jenkins -> Manage credentials. Click
System -> Global credentials and then click Add credentials. Select the kind as
Username and Password and enter your DockerHub username and enter the
token in Password that we have generated in dockerHub. Give the ID and
description of your choice but remember this ID as we will be using it in
Jenkinsfile and click Create.

2.1. Create a Repository in DockerHub

Go to the DockerHub registry, select Repositories and click Create repository.

Give a name to the repository and select visibility as Public and click Create.

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Step 3: Setup Docker in EC2

Instance
Launch an EC2 instance and install docker into it. Open port 22 to SSH into the
instance and open port 8081 as I will be exposing my Java application to port
8081. After successful deployment, you will be able to access the application in
the browser using http://PUBLIC_IP:8081/hello

I have launched the Amazon Linux instance and setup Docker using the below
commands:

COPY

# Update packages
sudo yum update
# Install Docker
sudo yum install docker
# Add ec2-user to Docer group
sudo usermod -a -G docker ec2-user
# Enable docker service at AMI boot time
sudo systemctl enable docker.service
# Start the Docker service
sudo systemctl start docker.service

3.1. Add EC2 credentials in Jenkins

Go to Jenkins Dashboard -> Manage Jenkins -> Manage Credentials. Click on

Global and Add Credentials and select SSH Username with the private key
under Kind. Enter the ID and Description of your choice. Make note of this ID as

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we will be using it in Jenkinsfile. Enter the username of the EC2 instance that
you have launched. For the Amazon Linux instance, the username is ec2-user.
Select Enter directly and click Add and copy-paste the private key that you
have created while launching an instance and click Create.

Step 4: Write Jenkinsfile and Dockerfile

Write Jenkinsfile with all the below steps to fetch, build, test and deploy Java
application. Remember to add the below Jenkinsfile in the root directory of your
project in GitHub.

GitHub Project

COPY

pipeline {
agent any

environment {
DOCKERHUB_CREDENTIALS = credentials('docker-hub-cred')
REMOTE_SERVER = 'your-remote-server-ip'
REMOTE_USER = 'your-remote-server-user'
}

// Fetch code from GitHub

stages {
stage('checkout') {
steps {
git branch: 'main', url: 'https://github.com/palakbhawsar98/JavaWebAp

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// Build Java application

stage('Maven Build') {
steps {
sh 'mvn clean install'
}

// Post building archive Java application

post {
success {
archiveArtifacts artifacts: '**/target/*.jar'
}
}
}

// Test Java application

stage('Maven Test') {
steps {
sh 'mvn test'
}
}

// Build docker image in Jenkins

stage('Build Docker Image') {

steps {
sh 'docker build -t javawebapp:latest .'
sh 'docker tag javawebapp palakbhawsar/javawebapp:latest'
}
}

// Login to DockerHub before pushing docker Image

stage('Login to DockerHub') {
steps {
sh 'echo $DOCKERHUB_CREDENTIALS_PSW | docker login -u $DOCKERHUB_C
}
}

// Push image to DockerHub registry

stage('Push Image to dockerHUb') {

steps {
sh 'docker push palakbhawsar/javawebapp:latest'
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}
post {
always {
sh 'docker logout'
}
}

// Pull docker image from DockerHub and run in EC2 instance

stage('Deploy Docker image to AWS instance') {

steps {
script {
sshagent(credentials: ['awscred']) {
sh "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ${REMOTE_USER}@${REMOTE_SERVER}
sh "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ${REMOTE_USER}@${REMOTE_SERVER} 'do
sh "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ${REMOTE_USER}@${REMOTE_SERVER}
}
}
}
}
}
}

Also, write Dockerfile with the instructions to build the Java project and keep
this file in the root directory of the project.

COPY

#Define your base image

FROM eclipse-temurin:17-jdk-focal

#Maintainer of this image

LABEL maintainer="Palak Bhawsar"

#Copying Jar file from target folder

COPY target/web-services.jar web-services.jar

#Expose app to outer world on this port

EXPOSE 8081

#Run executable with this command

ENTRYPOINT ["java", "-jar", "web-services.jar"]

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Step 5: Create a Jenkins pipeline

Go to Jenkins Dashboard click New Item -> Give a name to the pipeline ->
Select Pipeline -> Click Ok

Add Description of your pipeline -> Build Triggers -> GitHub hook trigger for
GITScm polling. Scroll to the last in the Pipeline section and from the dropdown
select Pipeline script from SCM. Under SCM, select Git and enter your GitHub
project repository URL. If your GitHub repository is private then add credentials.

Also, enter the branch name in Branches to build and the Jenkinsfile name in
Script Path and click Save. Finally, Click Build Now to run the pipeline.

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The Jenkins pipeline run successfully and the docker image got deployed to the
EC2 instance.

Access your Java Application in the browser using the public IP of the AWS
instance at port 8081

publicIP:8081/hello

Congratulations🥳🥳, we have successfully created an Automated CI/CD

pipeline for Java application.

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Thank You

Palak Bhawsar ✨

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