DevOps & Infra CI/CD mature

Jenkins

Name: Jenkins
Author: Jenkins Community

Extensible open-source CI/CD automation server

23.0K stars 1.0K contributors Since 2020

Website → GitHub

Extensible open-source CI/CD automation server

License

MIT

Min RAM

1 GB

Min CPUs

2 cores

Scaling

horizontal

Complexity

intermediate

Performance

medium

Self-hostable

✓

K8s native

Offline

Pricing

fully free

Docs quality

good

Vendor lock-in

none

Use cases

✓ Primary: build-automation
✓ Primary: continuous-integration
✓ Primary: continuous-deployment

Anti-patterns / when NOT to use

✕ UI is dated
✕ Plugin hell - dependency conflicts
✕ Groovy Jenkinsfiles complex
✕ Resource hungry

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Replaces / alternatives to

Technical specs

Language

Java

API type

REST

Protocols

HTTP

Deployment

dockerbinary

Community

GitHub stars 23.0K

Contributors 1.0K

Commit frequency weekly

Plugin ecosystem none

Backing Jenkins Community

Funding foundation

Release

Latest version —

Last release —

Since 2020

Best fit

Team size

smallmediumenterprise

Industries

general