So, what if you want to run jenkins locally on a mac? What if you want it to build from a private github repository, and you want it to use its own private key? And you’re on a mac? Get Jenkins First, you need to get jenkins. On my homebrew-enabled mac, I ran brew install jenkins. Without homebrew, you can just download the latest war file. (You will need java 6 to run jenkins.) Homebrew provides
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