Jenkins

What is Jenkins? How it’s helping Real-World Applications?

Kaushal Soni
4 min readMar 12, 2021

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Hey Learners πŸ–πŸ» πŸ–πŸ» πŸ–πŸ»

This time I came up one of the most-famous DevOps tool- Jenkins. I hope you all excited as it belong to DevOps field. πŸ‘πŸ»

β€œ In this we will discuss about Jenkins in brief , about what is Jenkins and some Jenkins industrial use-cases.”

so, without wasting time, let’s discuss our topic.

WHAT IS JENKINS πŸ€” πŸ€” πŸ€”

If we want to understand in short, Jenkins a DevOps tool which helps in integration of various DevOps tools with one another in very easy way. It is one of the leading open source automation server, which provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project.

It is capable of orchestrating a chain of actions that help to achieve the Continuous Integration process in an automated fashion. Jenkins is free and is entirely written in Java. Jenkins is a widely used application around the world that has around 300k installations and growing day by day.

It speed up almost every development companies as it is easy and easily implementable. Nowadays, it’s basically used in Web application CI/CD.

Advantages Of Jenkins β€πŸš€πŸš€β€πŸš€

Listed down here are some of the significant advantages of using Jenkins:

  • Jenkins is open-source and free to use. It is a preferred CI/CD tool by early-stage startups as well as large corporations since it has been under development since a long time.
  • It is a rich plugin ecosystem. At the time of this article, there were close to 1500+ plugins available for use.
  • Jenkins can be integrated with popular cloud platforms such as Amazon EC2, Google Cloud, VMWare vSphere, Digital Ocean, and more.
  • Jenkins Pipelines can be extremely useful for realizing CD requirements for large-scale projects.

Applications of Jenkins πŸ‘€πŸ‘€πŸ‘€

Application of Jenkins are:

  1. Kubernetes-Ansible Automation Pipeline
  2. Kubernetes β€” Grafana - Prometheus Pipeline
  3. CI/CD Pipeline
  4. Maven-Jenkins Integration

many DevOps tools integration as hundreds of plugins supported by Jenkins.

Some Jenkins Pipeline are : (only flow diagrams) 🧠 🧠 🧠

Basic Jenkins Pipeline
Some Pipelines
A mobile App Pipeline with Jenkins

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Jenkins Job View
Jenkins Pipeline View

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For Detail CI/CD pipeline visit my blog :

https://kaushalsoni.medium.com/how-to-create-ci-cd-pipeline-using-devops-tools-bd8bff117461

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Kaushal Soni
Kaushal Soni

Written by Kaushal Soni

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