Jenkins is an open-source automation server widely used for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. It automates the process of building, testing, and deploying software, helping teams to streamline their development workflows and improve collaboration. Jenkins boasts a vast ecosystem of plugins that extend its functionality, enabling integration with various tools, version control systems, and cloud services.

Features of Jenkins:

• Jenkins offers a user-friendly interface for configuring jobs and pipelines through a web-based dashboard, allowing users to define build steps, triggers, and post-build actions with ease.
• Jenkins supports distributed builds, allowing users to distribute workloads across multiple machines, agents, or cloud instances, enhancing scalability and performance.
• Jenkins provides comprehensive notifications and monitoring capabilities, alerting users about build failures, regressions, and other issues via email, Slack, or other communication channels.
• Jenkins offers robust security features, including role-based access control (RBAC), LDAP integration, and encrypted credentials management, ensuring data privacy and access control.

To Access Jenkins web interface navigate to http://your-domain-ip:8080

Then to Unlock Jenkins run $cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword on your VM.

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