Jenkins is a fork of a project called Hudson, which was trademarked by Oracle.
Jenkins development is now managed as an open source project under the governance of the CD Foundation, an organization within the Linux Foundation.
Jenkins is an open source continuous integration or continuous delivery.
Jenkins is a deployment (CI/CD) automation software DevOps tool.
Jenkins written on JAVA programming language.
Jenkins is used to implement CI/CD workflows, called pipelines.
Jenkins describes a desired state and the automation server ensures that that state is achieved.
Jenkins reduces stress on the development and operations team, by removing the need for middle of the night and weekend rollouts.
Jenkins becomes especially acute when deploying to a microservices architecture.
Jenkins is used to build and test your software projects continuously making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build.
Jenkins has 1000+ plugins to ease the work.
Plugins in Jenkins allows the integration of Various DevOps stages.
Jenkins is a server-based system that runs in servlet containers such as Apache Tomcat.