Bamboo Standalone Installation Guide (Linux)

To install Bamboo Standalone on Linux,

Step 1. Downloading & Installing Bamboo Standalone

Bamboo Standalone for Linux is available for download here.

Linux Archive (.tar.gz)

To install Bamboo using the Linux archive version (atlassian-bamboo-x.x-standalone.tar.gz), you need to extract the files to a Bamboo installation directory of your choice. By default, the root directory of the tar file is "Bamboo".

You will also need to setup your Bamboo home directory — this is the directory where Bamboo will store its configuration data. To do this, open the file named bamboo-init.properties in the <Bamboo installation directory>/webapp/WEB-INF/classes directory. In this file, insert the property "bamboo.home", with an absolute path to your Bamboo home directory. Your file should look something like this:

bamboo.home=/test/bamboo-home

Step 2. Launching Bamboo Standalone on Linux

There are two ways you can launch Bamboo on Linux:

1. Launch via bamboo.sh startup script

You can start Bamboo with the default bamboo.sh file in your installation root directory. The bamboo.sh command accepts the following options (e.g. ./bamboo.sh start):

• start — this starts Bamboo.
• stop — this stops Bamboo.
• restart — this restarts Bamboo
• status — this provides the current status of Bamboo.  

2. Launch via Java Service Wrapper

Alternatively, you can start Bamboo via a Java Service Wrapper, which provides services such as automatic restarting. To do this, you will need to use the start-bamboo command available in the /wrapper folder of the Bamboo installation. You will need to fire the command with one of the following options (e.g. ./start-bamboo start):

• console — this starts Bamboo in a console. The logs will scroll to standard out.
• start — this starts Bamboo.
• stop — this stops Bamboo.
• restart — this restarts Bamboo
• status — this provides the current status of Bamboo.
• dump — stops Bamboo abruptly by killing the process

Once Bamboo has started, you can access it by going to your web browser and entering the address: http://localhost:8085/.

Step 3. Configuring Bamboo

See Running the Setup Wizard.