The Kurian Jenkins slave AMI is preloaded with most of the popular tools that are required to run variety of build jobs and automation tasks on Jenkins:
Git Client
Ant
Maven
Gradle
Java OpenJDK 8 as the default Java installation
OpenJDK releases from 9 through 14.
GNU C/C++ compilers
Go compiler
Python 2.7 and 3.x
Docker
Node.js
Ansible
AWS CLI
kubectl
All the tools are installed following official guidelines so you don't need to deal with any custom environment and you can build on the baseline build platform available on this AMI.
The build slaves spun up from this AMI work the best with Jenkins server created from Kurian's Jenkins Server line of AMIs, versions 2. 232 and above. Both Jenkins server and slave AMIs are available for all the major Linux distributions.
Kurian has released pre-configured software applications such as Wordpress, Jenkins, databases, LAMP stack, Ansible, DevOps tools, and monitoring applications that are widely used by system administrators and DevOps engineers. For selected Linux distributions hardened images based on CIS benchmark are also available. The Kurian AMIs are built following official installation steps so you do not need to learn any custom procedures if additional configurations need to be done.