Thousands of plugins integrate Jenkins with SCMs, build tools, cloud providers, and notification services, making it adaptable to almost any environment.
Declarative and scripted pipelines store CI/CD logic in `Jenkinsfile`s under version control, enabling code review and change history for pipeline behavior.
Jenkins controllers coordinate work across many agents (nodes), providing horizontal scalability and support for heterogeneous build environments.
Freestyle jobs, multibranch pipelines, and matrix jobs support different workflows, from simple builds to complex, multi-platform test matrices.
Years of community usage have produced extensive documentation, blog posts, and examples for most CI/CD scenarios.
Large organizations use Jenkins as a central automation hub for builds and deployments across many legacy and modern applications.
Teams with complex monorepos script sophisticated pipeline behavior in Jenkins to coordinate multi-component builds and tests.
Platform teams wrap Jenkins in tooling and templates to provide self-service CI for internal teams while retaining centralized governance.
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