Jenkins CI/CD Tool

Jenkins is a free and open source automation server. It helps automate the parts of software development related to building, testing, and deploying, facilitating continuous integration and continuous delivery. It is a server-based system that runs in servlet containers such as Apache Tomcat. It supports version control tools, including CVS, Git, Perforce & ClearCase , and can execute Apache Ant, Apache Maven based projects as well as arbitrary shell scripts and Windows batch commands.

Why Jenkins is so popular?

Jenkins is not just a CI tool anymore where we can just run a build with scripts. Nowadays, Jenkins is the core tool for most of the projects that needed end to end integration. We can say Jenkins is an orchestrator for deploying applications.

Jenkins Lowers The Effort Of Converting CLI To GUI

Nowadays everybody wants that there work will be done with just one click. So, Jenkins Web UI is much easier to use, to convert a CLI into a GUI button click, just wrap up the script as a Jenkins job

We can keep people in sync using Jenkins especially in slack. Nowadays teams tend to use one…