Glossary terms - J

Terms beginning with J cover the units of work and tooling that run pipelines — jobs, Jenkins and the JSON that configures them. Each definition is kept short enough to quote.

1 term

CI/CD tooling
Jenkins
Jenkins is a free, open-source automation server written in Java that builds, tests and deploys software. A central controller schedules jobs onto distributed agents, and an ecosystem of 1,800+ plugins lets it integrate with almost any tool. Pipelines are defined as code in a Jenkinsfile, making it the long-running incumbent of self-hosted CI/CD.