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 of ready-made plugins that can tailor Jenkins to meet almost any organizations' specific tools and processes. Even with all of the ready-made plugins it may be necessary to implement a custom plugin for a specific need or solution. Creating plugins...
