Jenkins

What is Jenkins?

• DevOps practices Recently CI/CD became a popular application. When developers integrated code fixes, and enhance new features in their source code repository, there is a need for automating integration processes.
• Jenkins is a popular CI tool, that enables you to verify the integration process with automated build, and automated test execution, as a result of this automation Jenkins provides valuable and quick feedback on the state & quality of the source.
• Jenkins is an open source and automation tool, written in Java with plugins build for CI purposes.
• Jenkins can be configured to trigger a build for every change made in source code repository like GIT,VSTS
• Jenkins allows the team to focus on their work, by automating the build, artifact mgmt. and deployment processes.
• Jenkins core functionality & flexibility allows fitting in a variety of env. & can help to streamline the development process for all stakeholders involved.
• The goal is to detect bugs early in the software development life cycle. And minimize risks
  • Reduces risk
  • Increase confidence
  • Better quality code
  • Ready to ship code
  • Systematic versioning
  • Code quality tread analysis
  • Time to market.
  • Reduce cost.
  • Increase productivity.
• CI & CD Tools :
  • Bamboo
  • Circleci
  • Continuum
  • Visual Studio
  • Travis CI
  • CruiseControl
  • TeamCity
  • Build Bot
  • Anthillpro
• Jenkins key point
  • An open-source platform for implementing DevOps pipeline
  • Cross-platform
  • Extension with plugin
  • Tried & tested
• Jenkins uses a master-slave approach. Where salve jobs can be executed on the platform.
• The minimum version of Java required is Java 7
• In the core, Jenkins is only an engine that helps to build a flexible and extensible DevOps pipeline.