Issue

You want to use Zulu® (Multi-platform Certified OpenJDK™) in a job and want to let Jenkins install it automatically on a linux slave

Environment

• Linux 64bits executors (The script can be updated to manage others platforms)
• CloudBees Core on modern cloud platforms - Managed Master
• CloudBees Core on traditional platforms - Client Master
• CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise - Managed Master
• CloudBees Jenkins Platform - Client Master
• CloudBees Jenkins Distribution
• Jenkins LTS
• Jenkins

Resolution

To install Zulu 8.23.0.3 (JDK 1.8.0_144), in your Jenkins configuration screen, you have to add a new JDK Installation using a shell script to install automatically it.

Here is the script used to install the version 8.23.0.3 (JDK 1.8.0_144). Depending of the version you want to install you may have to update the version and jdkUrl variables.
Tool Home must be the archive name without the extension (it is the directory name within the archive). In this case it will be zulu8.23.0.3-jdk8.0.144-linux_x64.

#!/bin/bash -ue
version=8.23.0.3
jdkUrl=http://cdn.azul.com/zulu/bin/zulu8.23.0.3-jdk8.0.144-linux_x64.tar.gz
jdkArchive=$(basename $jdkUrl)
jdkName="${jdkArchive%.tar.gz}"
jdkDir="$( cd -P "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
thisJdkDir=${jdkDir}/${jdkName}

if ! type wget >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "ERROR: Unable to run wget"
    exit 1
fi

if [ -x $thisJdkDir/bin/java ]; then
    JAVA_HOME="$thisJdkDir"
    if $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -version 2>&1 | grep -q "$version"; then
        exit 0
    fi
fi

echo "Installing Zulu ${version} in ${thisJdkDir}"
rm -rf $thisJdkDir
wget --no-verbose --referer=http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zulu/downloads $jdkUrl -O ${jdkArchive}
tar -xf ${jdkArchive}
rm -f ${jdkArchive}
echo "Zulu ${version} installed in ${thisJdkDir}"
exit 0

For example if you use it with Apache Maven it will give you something like

[zulu] $ mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.5.1 (094e4e31a5af55bb17be87675da41d9aeca062f3; 2017-09-10T08:42:54-04:00)
Maven home: /scratch/jenkins/tools/hudson.tasks.Maven_MavenInstallation/Maven_3.5.1/apache-maven-3.5.1
Java version: 1.8.0_144, vendor: Azul Systems, Inc.
Java home: /scratch/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Zulu8/zulu8.23.0.3-jdk8.0.144-linux_x64/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.13.0-129-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"