Installing GoCD on FreeBSD

This tutorial will guide you through the steps to install GoCD on FreeBSD.

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have the following:

• A FreeBSD instance with root access
• Java 8 installed
• wget or curl installed

Step 1: Download GoCD

Visit the download page on the GoCD website and locate the link for FreeBSD. You can use wget or curl to download the package:

$ sudo wget https://bintray.com/gocd/gocd-rpm/rpm -O /etc/pkg/gocd-rpm.repo
$ sudo pkg install gocd

This will download and install the latest version of GoCD.

Step 2: Verify the installation

Once the installation is complete, you can verify if GoCD is running by typing:

$ sudo service go-server status

This command will show you the status of the GoCD server.

Step 3: Configure GoCD

After successful installation, you can configure the GoCD server by editing the configuration file located at /etc/go/cruise-config.xml.

<server artifactsdir="artifacts">
  <security>
    <passwordFile path="/etc/go/passwd"/>
    <roleFile path="/etc/go/roles"/>
    <ldap uri="" searchFilter="" managerDN="" managerPassword="" groupSearchFilter="" userNameAttribute="" groupMembershipAttribute=""/>
  </security>
  <smtp host="mail.example.com" user="go@example.com" password="pwd" SSL="true" tls="true"/>
  <backup emailOnSuccess="true" emailOnFailure="true" address="ops@example.com" interval="1" time="01:00"/>
  <repositories>
    <repository id="example" name="example" url="http://svn.example.com"/>
  </repositories>
  <artifacts>
    <baseDir>/var/go/files</baseDir>
  </artifacts>
  <analytics authEnabled="true" authToken="token" endpoint="https://example.com/"/>
  <elastic agentAutoRegisterKey="abc-123" agentAutoRegisterResources="linux,docker,jdk"/>
</server>

Replace the uri, searchFilter, managerDN, managerPassword, groupSearchFilter, userNameAttribute, groupMembershipAttribute, host, user, password, address, id, name, and url with your own values.

Step 4: Start the GoCD server

To start the GoCD server, type:

$ sudo service go-server start

You can access the GoCD web interface by visiting http://localhost:8153/go in your web browser.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured GoCD on FreeBSD.

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