How to Use Jenkins - A Basic Way of Deployment Automation for Lazy Developers

I strongly believe that "lazy developer" is a synonym of "talented developer" from a motivational point of view.
Okay, let's get started with Jenkins setup then.
Let's go for password login for deployment, remembering that it's not the only way nor an elegant way of implementation, but just follow up ;)

CHANGE SSH PORT - FOR DESTINATION SERVER

1sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Find out the line #port 22 and uncomment it to change into port ${YOUR_NEW_SSH_PORT}, then reload the sshd service like so:

1sudo systemctl restart sshd

One more additional step for firewall (ufw in Ubuntu, firewall-cmd in CentOS), but we will refer to tons of materials out there, instead of mentioning it here.

ENABLE PASSWORD LOGIN FOR DESTINATION SERVER

In the same file as just above (/etc/ssh/sshd_config), do some modification like so:

1PasswordAuthentication yes
2PermitRootLogin prohibit-password -> PermitRootLogin yes

1sudo systemctl restart sshd

CREATE A PUBLIC KEY - FOR DESTINATION SERVER

1ssh-keygen  # yes to all
2cat /home/$USER/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Now you are seeing a public key of the destination server, which is called Deploy Key in Settings section on your github repo.
I think you got some sense on how to use it now.

CREATE A JENKINS JOB

You need SSH plugin besides the preinstalled recommended plugins in your Jenkins plugin shed.
Pretty straightforward hereafter, once you know shell script, you will get things done smoothly.

CONFIGURE GITHUB HOOK TRIGGER FOR GIT-SCM POLLING

Navigate to your github repo's Settings page, in the Webhooks tab, add in this url for Payload URL.

1$JENKINS_BASE_URL/github-webhook/

And set the payload type to application/json.
Note that this is specific to Github plugin, which is automatically installed as a recommended one.

Now you have everything needed for setting up a CD pipeline using Jenkins basically.
Feel free to ask any help in case you got stuck. 😎
Thanks for reading!