What is Jenkins? Advantages of Jenkins?

• Welcome to Jenkins. Jenkins is continuous integration tool, which is used to speed up the task or fulfill the application builds and deploys.
• Jenkins project is developed in Java technology and it is a open source project.
• It is integrate skillfully with existing or popular Java build tools like Apache Maven, Appache ANT, etc...
• Jenkins also a considered as a DevOps tool and it provides continuous integration services for software development.
• It is available in the form of GUI (web based application) and CMD (Command Line) interface.
• In Jenkins all the popular tools are available in the form of plug-ins.
• Jenkins is java based application and available for all the popular operation systems (OS) such as Windows, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix etc...
• Jenkins can be easily setup and configured via GUI interface, which includes on the fly error checks and build in help.
• The top most organization like Microsoft, Redhat, Cloud bees, JFrog, OSL(Open Source Lab), rackspace etc... are supporting to Jenkins project.