Jenkins
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What is Jenkins?
Jenkins is a fork of Hudson and is a continuous build system for software projects.
The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project.
Jenkins is an application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Among those things, current Jenkins focuses on the following two jobs:
Building/testing software projects continuously, just like CruiseControl or DamageControl. In a nutshell, Jenkins provides an easy-to-use so-called continuous integration system, making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. The automated, continuous build increases the productivity.
Monitoring executions of externally-run jobs, such as cron jobs and procmail jobs, even those that are run on a remote machine. For example, with cron, all you receive is regular e-mails that capture the output, and it is up to you to look at them diligently and notice when it broke. Jenkins keeps those outputs and makes it easy for you to notice when something is wrong.
The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project.
Jenkins is an application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Among those things, current Jenkins focuses on the following two jobs:
Building/testing software projects continuously, just like CruiseControl or DamageControl. In a nutshell, Jenkins provides an easy-to-use so-called continuous integration system, making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. The automated, continuous build increases the productivity.
Monitoring executions of externally-run jobs, such as cron jobs and procmail jobs, even those that are run on a remote machine. For example, with cron, all you receive is regular e-mails that capture the output, and it is up to you to look at them diligently and notice when it broke. Jenkins keeps those outputs and makes it easy for you to notice when something is wrong.
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- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
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- On-premises software
- Continuous Integration
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aaronfranke Both offer automated CI builds and are great services.
Its framework allows easy plugin of many modules to extend base functionality and its free and open source
I like Jenkins as an alternative because it is free and scalable.
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- Developed by R.Tyler Croy
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- Updated May 11, 2022
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Jenkins was added to AlternativeTo by Skrrytch on Mar 3, 2011 and this page was last updated May 26, 2022.
Best CI software.