How to create a freestyle project on jenkins with github webhook plugin - tooltwist/documentation GitHub Wiki

For this tutorial assuming that you already have a jenkins server, Git and GitHub plugin installed on jenkins and has an admin access on your project on GitHub.

Step 1:

• Go to your jenkins server then click on new item.

Step 2:

• Enter your project name
• Select on freestyle project
• Click OK

Step 3:

• After creating new project navigate to Source Code Management section
• Click on Git
• Enter GitHub repository URL
• Enter Branch

Note: In order for this to work you must need to generate a personal access token in order for jenkins to communicate with your repo.

3.1

• Navigate to https://github.com (assumed that you already logged in)
• Click on settings

• Click on Personal access token
• Then click on Generate access token

• Enter token description
• Check on repo, this will grant a repo access on this token e.g. push/pull
• Click Generate Token

• After generating token, get the generated token and append it to your repo web url

e.g. https://{generated-token}@github.com/twistresources/arbys.git

• Then paste it on jenkins repository URL

Step 4:

• Navigate to Build Triggers section
• Check GITScm polling
• Then save

Step 5:

• Go to your project github repository
• Click on settings
• Integration & services
• Add Service
• Select on GitHub plugin

Step 6:

• Enter jenkins url
• Save service