Jenkins
Open Source Project (No central headquarters, governed by Continuous Delivery Foundation) · Founded 2011
Community-driven project with contributors worldwide employees · Open Source Foundation
Jenkins is an open-source automation server and leading provider of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) solutions for software development teams worldwide. Originally developed as Hudson in 2004 and forked to Jenkins in 2011, the platform has become the de facto standard for automating software build, test, and deployment processes. With an extensive plugin ecosystem comprising over 1,800 community-contributed plugins, Jenkins enables developers to integrate virtually any t...
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Jenkins holds the dominant market position as the most widely adopted open-source CI/CD automation server, with an estimated 70%+ market share in the CI/CD space. Its extensive plugin ecosystem, active community, and vendor-neutral approach have established it as the industry standard for build automation.