I just had to set up Jenkins to use GitHub. My notes (to myself, mostly):

Detailed Instructions

For setting up Jenkins to build GitHub projects. This assumes some ability to manage Jenkins, use the command line, set up a utility LDAP account, etc. Please share or improve this Gist as needed.

Install Jenkins Plugins

• get both the git and github plugin
• http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Git+Plugin
• http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Github+Plugin

Make a Utility Account in the GitHub (optional)

• This would keep your identity separate from your Jenkins server
• Helpful if Jenkins runs under a different user

On the Jenkins server (optional)

• If Jenkins does run as different user, set this up on your server
• Set git user.name and user.email global config options.
• 'git config --global user.email JENKINS_USERNAME@WHATEVER_HOSTNAME'
• 'git config --global user.name JENKINS_USERNAME'
• This should match the GitHub utility account username and email address

Generate rsa key pair on your Jenkins server

• Log into the server as the user that Jenkins runs under
• Using command line, change directory to ~/.ssh
• Generate key with 'ssh-keygen -t rsa -C 'JENKINS_USERNAME@WHATEVER_HOSTNAME''
• Note that -C comment is optional, just helps you identify the public key later
• Do NOT use a passphrase for the keygen (at least, I could not make this work)
• If there's a way to use a key pair with passphrase, please comment and let me know?
• Init with 'ssh -v git@git.corp.adobe.com'
• Reply 'yes' to add known host
• Copy contents of public key
• There's more reading about this on GitHub https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys https://help.github.com/articles/error-permission-denied-publickey

Update the GitHub Account for Jenkins

• Register utility user with git.corp.adobe.com
• Log in the utility account
• Go to Account Settings > SSH Keys
• Add the contents of the public key from your server

Configure Jenkins

• Make sure the Manage Jenkins > Configure System has the right path to git
• Set the global git user.name and user.email to match your global config options
• Configure GitHub Web Hook to Manually manage hook urls
• Click the (?) icon next to the manual option and copy the hook URL you see there
• Optionally set the service account email as the Jenkins sender email address

Configure Github Project

• Log into Github as the owner or collaborator of a repo
• Click the Admin button for that repo
• Select 'Service Hooks' in the left column
• Select 'Jenkins (Github plugin)' in the Available Service Hooks column
• Add the service hook URL for your server eg http://yourjenkinsmachine.com:8080/github-webhook/ you might find the URL in the GitHub Web Hook > Manual setting (?) help text
• Check the 'Active' checkbox

Create a Jenkins job

• In the general options, add the URL to the github project eg 'http://github.com/tehfoo/build-test/'
• Under Source Code Management, select Git
• For the repository URL, enter the SSH URL for your project this is found by toggling the HTTP/SSH button to the right of the URL field on the repo home page in GitHub eg 'git@github.com:ixab/build-test.git'
• Under Build Triggers, check the "Build when a change is pushed to GitHub"
• Add other build task (running Grunt, or Ant, or scary Maven stuff, or whatever)

Enjoy!