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In the incredibly unlikely event that the Jenkins server fails, we backed up our EC2 instance to avoid repeating the many hours of work that went into the current configuration. All you need to do is navigate to the EC2 management console, click "Launch an instance", then select T3 micro as the instance type. Then click the configure instance header at the top of the screen and then set the following settings:
Finally go into security groups and
Installing Jenkins:
While you will likely never need to setup Jenkins yourself, as in the case of a failure you should just restore the EC2 instance. In case that is not possible we created this tutorial to make it easier to reconfigure Jenkins on a new EC2 instance if the need were to arise. Before beginning this tutorial make sure you are comfortable interacting with our AWS EC2 instances via SSH.
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