Extending Jenkins

Jenkins evolution

Typically, most users or organizations will start off on their Jenkins journey by setting up a basic, standard Jenkins installation to manage a few simple development tasks. The most common use is to build your source code, either periodically or whenever it changes in your central repository (Git, Subversion, and so on).

Using Jenkins to automate this type of simple and repetitive task often provides a lot of useful benefits very quickly and easily. Straight out of the box, so to speak, you get a bundle of helpful features, such as task scheduling and job triggering, building and testing report pages, sending out email notifications and alerts when there are new issues, and providing rapid and live feedback of how healthy (or ...