Day-32: Jenkins — Introduction & Setup

🚀 1️⃣ What is Jenkins?

Jenkins is a popular open-source automation server used for building CI/CD pipelines.

It helps automate:

• Code building
• Testing
• Deployment
• Integration with DevOps tools

💡 Jenkins enables Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD).

⚙️ 2️⃣ Why Jenkins?

• Free & open-source
• Highly customizable
• 1,800+ plugins (Git, Docker, Maven, AWS, Kubernetes...)
• Automates repetitive DevOps tasks
• Integrates with nearly every tool in DevOps ecosystem

🧩 3️⃣ Jenkins Architecture Basics

• Jenkins Master → Coordinates tasks, schedules jobs