What is Jenkins?
Jenkins is a free open-source Continuous Integration (CI) tool. It is written in Java which makes it platform independent i.e it can run on different platforms like Linux, Windows, and macOS. Jenkins is the most widely accepted tool for Continuous Integration.
How it Achieves Continuous Integration?
Jenkins achieves Continuous Integration with the help of plugins. Jenkins has well over thousands of plugins and that is the major reason it is so popular and widely used. The ability to have integration with various tools and technologies that comes with plugins puts Jenkins at the top with other CI tools.
Audience
This guide will assist all DevOps interested people, software testers who want to learn how to consistently design and evaluate their projects in order to assist developers in integrating updates to the project as soon as possible and obtaining fresh builds.