title: Installing and Managing Jenkins on Amazon Linux
body: <p>I'm looking to move Jenkins to Amazon EC2 running Amazon Linux.</p>
  
  <p>Currently we have Jenkins installed as a package (via <code>yum</code>). I'm considering running Jenkins as the contained <code>jenkins.war</code> on EC2 (for auto-upgrades and ease of deployment).</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately I've been unable to find much documentation regarding managing jenkins as the latter.</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to determine:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Which installation is preferred, and why?</li>
  <li>If running as a contained jar:
  <ul>
  <li>How do I start/stop jenkins?</li>
  <li>Should I create a jenkins user?</li>
  </ul></li>
  </ul>