Migrating Jenkins Credentials

Jun 16, 2022 • Thy DaiCategories: jenkins

1. Stop Jenkins on new server.

   new-server # /etc/init.d/jenkins stop
   

2. Remove the identity.key.enc file on new server:

   new-server # rm identity.key.enc
   

3. Copy secret* and credentials.xml to new server.

   current-server # cd /var/lib/jenkins
   current-server # tar czvf /tmp/credentials.tgz secret* credentials.xml
   current-server # scp credentials.tgz $user@$new-server:/tmp/
   new-server # cd /var/lib/jenkins
   new-server # tar xzvf /tmp/credentials.tgz -C ./
   

4. Start Jenkins.

   new-server # /etc/init.d/jenkins start
   

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Jenkins Migrating Credentials