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What is Jenkins?

Jenkins is an open source automation server. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project. As an extensible automation server, Jenkins can be used as a simple CI server or turned into a continuous delivery hub for any project.

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Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Jenkins.
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

30.1%

14,776 installations of 49,151

#2 most frequent

Information

17.2%

8,472 installations of 49,151

#3 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

9.9%

4,851 installations of 49,151

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Jenkins Powerful CICD Tool with Flexibility at the Cost of Usability

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Jenkins is used for triggering builds in our company. We have more than 20+ apps which needs to be deployed , and we take help of jenkins to do so. From frontend, to backend to ML team, all uses jenkins for their deployment.
Jenkins helps us speed up our delivery by allowing parallel builds and testing, significantly improving deployment times. Jenkins integrates seamlessly with Git (GitHub/GitLab), Docker, Kubernetes, and other DevOps tools we use, enabling end-to-end automation.

Pros

  • Monitors source code repositories pretty well
  • Automatically triggers the deployment when new code is pushed
  • Advanced logic like conditional steps, parallel execution, or environment-specific stages
  • Reusability across projects using shared libraries

Cons

  • Complex UI
  • Less user friendly
  • Should not go down
  • Plugin Dependency and Maintenance Overhead
  • Limited Native Support for Modern Cloud-Native Workflows

Return on Investment

  • Faster deployments
  • Reduced Human Errors & Downtime
  • Standardization Across Teams
  • Initial Setup Time is more

Usability

Alternatives Considered

GitLab

Other Software Used

Cursor, WebStorm

The Power of Flexibility and Scalability for CICD Automation.

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Jenkins integrates well with tools like Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. Used to automate the build, test, and deployment processes across multiple teams, projects, and environments.

Pros

  • Lots of plugins.
  • Highly Configurable.

Cons

  • UI/UX Feels Outdated.
  • Steep learning curve.

Return on Investment

  • Scalability.
  • Improved Code Quality and Reliability.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Bamboo, GitLab and GitHub

Other Software Used

GitLab, Atlassian Bamboo, GitHub

Jenkins helps automate your teams efficiency!

Incentivized
Joshua Jordan
Sr Systems Engineer in Engineering at Mercury (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My team primarily uses Jenkins, an application deployment tool. We create automated jobs that test code and then deploy to servers/containers and restart the apps. We have also begun implementing several CI/CD uses where we are able to automate jobs to deploy container infrastructure code to Git and have runners automatically deploy into our environments.

Pros

  • Works with Git very well.
  • Easy to write in preferred coding language.
  • Easy to allow varied levels of access to different jobs/dirs.
  • Large selection of plugins to customize.

Cons

  • Jenkins config.yaml recovery is not smooth and takes a lot of legwork.
  • Plugins that go out of date can cause issues with upgrades.
  • Progress UI frequently lacks detailed descriptions from Jenkin's side.

Most Important Features

  • CI/CD
  • Git Integration.
  • Automated/Scheduled Jobs.
  • Access Control.

Return on Investment

  • Improves Engineer to Dev efficiency.
  • Maintains consistency between users.
  • Provides project visibility.

Alternatives Considered

Travis CI, GitLab and Azure DevOps Server

Other Software Used

GitLab, ServiceNow IT Service Management, Venafi Control Plane for Machine Identities, Microsoft SharePoint

Powerful CICD tool for handling all stages in pipeline with versatile programs.

Incentivized
Shivanand Labbi
Senior software engineer in Information Technology at Manhattan (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Jenkins as a main CICD in our project, we organize jobs with similar function into Group, we create jobs for the build, compile, and unit test each time a developer check-in their code to a specified branch and build a new version of artifact when having master branch commit. We add some additional plugin and create Jenkins jobs for run system test, automation test, and integration test automatically when having new commit to master and have jobs for deploy our new code to destination VMs on demand.

Pros

  • continuous deployment
  • continuous integration
  • continuous delivery also it's the best integration tools in the market

Cons

  • Jenkins UI looks bit classic, and it is hard for manage when we have a large number of jobs and pipeline
  • It does not have features for tracking job history, sometimes accident deletes or changes to a job and we unable to recover it.
  • User and roles management needs some improvement

Return on Investment

  • It made very good impact in business by fastening the process
  • It provides single place for building all the jobs
  • I don't see any negative impact from Jenkins

Usability

Alternatives Considered

GitLab

Other Software Used

PagerDuty, Docker, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Build

Jenkins : An opensource tool for automating software development and deployment

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Jenkins for continuous integration and continuous deployment in our organization. It has helped in moving towards automation and currently major applications created using TIBCO BPM Enterprise, React UI and Node JS are being deployed using Jenkins. Jenkins has helped a great deal to not just developers but system administrators as well. Any additional tasks which need to be completed along with deployment are added in the scripts which gets executed during deployment.

Pros

  • Automated deployment
  • It is open source and user friendly
  • Customize deployment pipeline as per the requirements
  • Supports good documentation

Cons

  • There can be performance issues due to single server architecture.
  • Implementation is not relatively easy
  • User interface has room for improvement
  • Redundant pluggins

Return on Investment

  • Since Jenkins is open source, it saves licenses and procurement costs
  • Manual tasks have been automated using Jenkins leaving ample time for users to focus on other tasks at hand
  • Jenkins provides a wide range of plugins which can be used to complete deployment with ease

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Octopus Deploy, JFrog Artifactory and Bamboo

Other Software Used

Oracle SQL Developer, Postman, SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear, Notepad++