Jenkins not showing on Ubuntu through google cloud

Question

I've installed Jenkins on my Ubuntu machine running on compute engine in Google Cloud.

To do so I have run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt php5-mysql git openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jdk -y
wget -q -O - https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian/jenkins-ci.org.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo deb http://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable binary/ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install jenkins

Jenkins seems to be installing fine but when i go to the public IP address on port 8080 there nothing there. I read that it may be so that Apache is using port 8080 so I edited /etc/default/jenkins and changed the port to 8081. Still I don't see jenkins on that port.

I've also restarted the service but no change there. If I do:

sudo netstat -plntu

I see:

Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      422/sshd        
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      9745/apache2    
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN      422/sshd        
tcp6       0      0 :::8081                 :::*                    LISTEN      17917/java      
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:53763           0.0.0.0:*                           294/dhclient    
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:68              0.0.0.0:*                           294/dhclient    
udp        0      0 10.132.0.2:123          0.0.0.0:*                           372/ntpd        
udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:123           0.0.0.0:*                           372/ntpd        
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:123             0.0.0.0:*                           372/ntpd        
udp6       0      0 :::9732                 :::*                                294/dhclient    
udp6       0      0 :::33848                :::*                                17917/java      
udp6       0      0 ::1:123                 :::*                                372/ntpd        
udp6       0      0 :::123                  :::*                                372/ntpd        
udp6       0      0 :::5353                 :::*                                17917/java

If I check the status of the services it seems to be running:

 [ + ]  acpid
 [ + ]  apache2
 [ - ]  bootlogs
 [ - ]  bootmisc.sh
 [ - ]  checkfs.sh
 [ - ]  checkroot-bootclean.sh
 [ - ]  checkroot.sh
 [ + ]  cron
 [ + ]  dbus
 [ - ]  generate-ssh-hostkeys
 [ - ]  hostname.sh
 [ - ]  hwclock.sh
 [ + ]  jenkins
 [ - ]  killprocs
 [ + ]  kmod
 [ - ]  motd
 [ - ]  mountall-bootclean.sh
 [ - ]  mountall.sh
 [ - ]  mountdevsubfs.sh
 [ - ]  mountkernfs.sh
 [ - ]  mountnfs-bootclean.sh
 [ - ]  mountnfs.sh
 [ + ]  networking
 [ + ]  ntp
 [ + ]  procps
 [ + ]  rc.local
 [ - ]  rmnologin
 [ - ]  rsync
 [ + ]  rsyslog
 [ - ]  screen-cleanup
 [ - ]  sendsigs
 [ + ]  ssh
 [ - ]  sudo
 [ + ]  udev
 [ + ]  udev-finish
 [ - ]  umountfs
 [ - ]  umountnfs.sh
 [ - ]  umountroot
 [ - ]  unattended-upgrades
 [ + ]  urandom
 [ - ]  uuidd
 [ - ]  x11-common

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here?

Tuxdude Tuxdude · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-17T22:08:03

As far as the VM is concerned, it looks like Jenkins is indeed running (based on the output from netstat and the list of running services):

tcp6 0 0 :::8081 :::* LISTEN 17917/java

Jenkins is a java application, and hence the process might only show up as java.

It look like you're trying to access the service through the instance's public IP and port. The Google Compute Engine (GCE) firewall might be blocking this, since by default all incoming ports from external IPs in GCE VMs are blocked.

If your goal is to access this port on this machine from any public IP, you can follow these steps to grant access:

Using gcloud

# Create a new firewall rule that allows INGRESS tcp:8081 with VMs containing tag 'allow-tcp-8081'
gcloud compute firewall-rules create rule-allow-tcp-8081 --source-ranges 0.0.0.0/0 --target-tags allow-tcp-8081 --allow tcp:8081

# Add the 'allow-tcp-8081' tag to a VM named VM_NAME
gcloud compute instances add-tags VM_NAME --tags allow-tcp-8081

# If you want to list all the GCE firewall rules
gcloud compute firewall-rules list

Using Cloud Console

Menu -> Networking -> Firewall Rules
Create Firewall Rule
Choose the following settings for the firewall rule:
1. Name for the rule - rule-allow-tcp-8081 or any other name you prefer for this firewall rule.
2. Direction is ingress
3. Action on match is Allow
4. Targets is Specified target tags
5. Target tags is allow-tcp-8081
6. Source IP ranges is 0.0.0.0/0 (or if you have a set of IP ranges you know will be the only ones accessing this, use them instead for stronger restriction)
7. Protocols and ports is tcp:8081
8. Select Create button to create this firewall rule.
Once you've created the above firewall rule you will need to add the tag allow-tcp-8081 to all the instances where this rule needs to be applied. In your case:
1. Open up the GCE VM Instances page
2. Select the instance where Jenkins is running
3. In the VM instance details page, select the Edit link on the very top.
4. In the Network Tags box, enter allow-tcp-8081 to apply the tag to this instance.
5. Select Save to save the changes.

Now give it a few seconds to a few minutes for the changes to take effect and you will be able to access the jenkins web URL.

You can also go through the documentation for Firewall rules to get a better understanding of how they work and how to configure them.

NOTE: By using a source range of 0.0.0.0/0, you're opening up this port to the entire internet, so clients anywhere in the world will be able to connect to this port. Be aware of the security implications of doing this.

Jenkins not showing on Ubuntu through google cloud

1 Answers

Using gcloud

Using Cloud Console