How to shutdown my Jenkins safely

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I run Jenkins in its own container  I use the command  nohup java -jar jenkins war --httpsPort 8443     How do I shut it down safely  Right now  I use the kill command to kill the process

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Immediately shuts down Jenkins server   In Windows CMD exe  Go to folder where jenkins-cli jar file is located   C  Program Files  x86  Jenkins war WEB-INF  Use Command to Safely Shutdown  java -jar jenkins-cli jar -s http   localhost 8080 safe-shutdown --username  YourUsername   --password  YourPassword    The full list of commands is available at http   localhost 8080 cli   Credits to Francisco post for cli commands   Reference   1   Hope helps someone

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You can also look in the init script area  e g  centos vi  etc init d jenkins   for details on how the service is actually started and stopped

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The full list of commands is available at http   your-jenkins cli  The command for a clean shutdown is http   your-jenkins safe-shutdown  You may also want to use http   your-jenkins safe-restart

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Create a Jenkins Job that runs on Master   java -jar   JENKINS HOME  war WEB-INF jenkins-cli jar  -s   JENKINS URL   safe-restart

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jenkinsUrl safeRestart - Let you to wait for running JOBS to get complete and do a RESTART  jenkinsUrl restart - Do a restart immediately without waiting for the jobs which are running currently  jenkinsUrl exit - It stops shutdown the JENKINS services jenkinsUrl reload - To reload the configuration changes

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Use http    jenkins-server  exit  This page shows how to use URL commands

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You can kill Jenkins safely  It will catch SIGTERM and SIGINT and perform an orderly shutdown  However  if Jenkins was in the middle of building something  it will abort the builds and they will show up gray in the status display    If you want to avoid this  you must put Jenkins into shutdown mode to prevent it from starting new builds and wait until currently running builds are done before killing Jenkins    You can also use the Jenkins command line interface and tell Jenkins to safe-shutdown  which does the same  You can find more info on Jenkins cli at http   YOURJENKINS cli

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Yes  kill should be fine if you re running Jenkins with the built-in Winstone container   This Jenkins Wiki page has some tips on how to set up control scripts for Jenkins

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If you would like to stop jenkins and all its services on the server using Linux console  e g  Ubuntu   run   service jenkins start stop restart   This is useful when you need to make an image volume snapshot and you want all services to stop writing to the disk volume

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