Jenkins is an open-source Continuous Integration server written in Java that orchestrates a series of actions to automate the Continuous Integration process. Jenkins supports the entire software development life cycle, including building, testing, documenting, and deploying, as well as other stages of the software development life cycle.
Jenkins is a popular application that has over 300,000 installations and is still growing. Jenkins allows software companies to accelerate their software development process by rapidly automating build and testing.
It is a server-side application that necessitates the use of a web server such as Apache Tomcat. Jenkins software became popular due to its ability to monitor repetitive tasks that arise during development.
Jenkins has a large knowledge base, documentation, and community resources.
It is suitable for legacy enterprise environments because it is based on Java, an enterprise development language with a large ecosystem.
Jenkins is managed by a very open community. Every month, they hold public meetings to solicit public feedback on the Jenkins project's development.
Extensible thanks to a large number of pre-existing plugins. Jenkins' flexibility and rich scripting and declarative language, which supports advanced, custom pipelines, are enhanced by plugins.
Jenkins' plugins database currently contains approximately 320 plugins. With plugins, Jenkins becomes even more powerful and feature-rich.
Jenkins also supports cloud-based architecture, so you can run it on cloud-based platforms.
Jenkins gained popularity because it was created by a developer for developers.
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