Jenkins provides good support for providing continuous deployment and delivery. If you look at the flow of any software development through deployment, it will be as shown below. The main part of Continuous deployment is to ensure that the entire process which is shown above is automated.
The next thing we wanted the answer to was can Jenkins be used as a CI server?
As an extensible automation server, Jenkins can be used as a simple CI server or turned into the continuous delivery hub for any project.
What is continuous deployment in Jenkins?
If you look at the flow of any software development through deployment, it will be as shown below. The main part of Continuous deployment is to ensure that the entire process which is shown above is automated. Jenkins achieves all of this via various plugins, one of them being the “Deploy to container Plugin” which was seen in the earlier lessons.
There are many plugins available which can be used to transfer the build files after a successful build to the respective application/web server. On example is the “Deploy to container Plugin ”. To use this follow the steps given below.
Some authors claimed tools such as Jenkins are widely popular for their potential to allow the applications’ continuous integration and delivery regardless of the platform. Jenkins is a free and one source tool that can handle any kind of build in Jenkins deployment, which will be discussed in the article.
How many plugins does Jenkins have?
With hundreds of plugins in the Update Center, Jenkins integrates with practically every tool in the continuous integration and continuous delivery toolchain. Jenkins can be extended via its plugin architecture, providing nearly infinite possibilities for what Jenkins can do.
Can a Jenkins job run multiple tasks at once?
A Jenkins job running multiple tasks is not effective. Modular and distributed design are good programming practices and that is applies to Jenkins deployment as well. Breaking a single build process into small processes allows reusability of generic jobs across multiple releases.