Chapter 10. Extending Jenkins

Jenkins has gained a lot of notoriety is summarily due its highly extensible architecture, and widely developed plugin ecosystem. The open-source community to-date has developed hundreds of centrally available plugins, in an effort to maximize the capabilities of Jenkins, integrate it with other technologies, and provide tighter coupling with other development-related tooling. The popular catch phrase surrounding the Jenkins plugin ecosystem is There's a plugin for that, and indeed there probably is.

 

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

 
 --Sir Issac Newton

The Jenkins open source development community in conjunction with enterprise software organizations have introduced a vast collection ...

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