Jenkins

Definitions

1. An automation server used to run continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, such as builds, tests, deployments, and scheduled jobs. Jenkins is known for its plugin ecosystem and for supporting both freestyle jobs and pipeline-as-code via Jenkinsfile.

   In plain English: It is a tool that automatically builds, tests, and ships software.

   Example: "The deploy is blocked because Jenkins is still running the integration suite against the release branch."

Related Terms

• Pipeline
• Post-Deploy Hook
• Pre-Deploy Hook
• Release Channel
• Release Management
• Test Runner
• Travis CI
• Semantic Release
• Automated Deployment
• Automated Migration
• Automation Pipeline
• Background Scheduler
• Code Pipeline
• Control Loop
• Cron Expression