What is Jenkins

Jenkins is an open source software which is used to make continuous integration

What is continuous integation ?

Continuous integration is a practice used in the devops mouvement. It permit to developers to change their source code and automaticaly put in production.

Moreover before put in production a software like Jenkins can test your code and send a feedback explaining why your code is wrong.

It can avoid bugs or security breach for exemple.

So what is Jenkins ?

Jenkins is an open source software developed in Java.

It is used to build and test your software projects continuously making it easier for developers to integrate changes to your project.

It also allows you to continuously deliver your software by integrating with a large number of testing and deployment technologies.