What is Jenkins in DevOps what is Jenkins Used For ??

Jenkins is one of the major tools in the field of Devops. Jenkins helps to have perfect continuous integration purposes and it is helpful in making faster and reliable deployments. This tool ensures that deployments cycles become faster, secure, smaller and reliable. Jenkins comes with many features and plugins which enables us to have more perfect and errorless deployments into the dev and prod environment.

Free and Open Source Tool

It is a free and open source tool which one can self host in their respective environment and use it. It is supported for both monolithic and microservice architecture. That is you can use the jenkins server to automate the task for multiple production servers and as well as for cluster systems such as for kubernetes. Jenkins allows us to run the test cases and throw the results onto it’s beautiful gui which indeed helps the developer to debug the code easily.

Integration with other Platforms

Jenkins servers have commendable ability to bind with different code integration tools such as GITLAB, GITHUB, SVC and many more. Jenkins is also called a continuous  Integration tool as it has capabilities to integrate the services from many locations and can make faster builds and deploy on the respected servers. Today, the most famous and developers’ first choice to have continuous integration is jenkins.
As it offer 100s of plugins.

There are  multiple benefits to use jenkins as listed below:

• Jenkins is an open source platform, which is free of cost to use.
• It can be self hosted and run it with our own privacy settings
• Jenkins is easy to install and manage
• It offers thousands of plugins to make our work easy.
• Jenkins is user friendly to use and hence is accepted by large number of professionals
• It is a platform independent tool so it can be run and managed on any operating system such as windows, Linux, MAC and more.