--- title: Introduction to Jenkins | daily.dev description: Jenkins is an automation tool written in Java with built-in plugins for continuous integration tasks. It is used to continuously build and test projects making... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-jenkins-ufko6g7wi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introduction to Jenkins | daily.dev og:description: Jenkins is an automation tool written in Java with built-in plugins for continuous integration tasks. It is used to continuously build and test projects making... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-jenkins-ufko6g7wi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ufko6G7wI.png og:image:alt: Introduction to Jenkins og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introduction to Jenkins **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · 5 min read · 66 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Jenkins is an automation tool written in Java with built-in plugins for continuous integration tasks. It is used to continuously build and test projects making it easier to integrate the changing codes to it. Jenkins can be installed through native system packages, Docker, or even run standalone by any machine with a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@necolanch** · 1 upvotes > I was introduced to Jenkins in a university lecture this week. This article explains really well what CI and Jenkins is/do for developers. **@irvv17** · 1 upvotes > Great intro to jenkins --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#jenkins](https://daily.dev/tags/jenkins) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-jenkins-ufko6g7wi) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Introduction to Jenkins","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-jenkins-ufko6g7wi","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-jenkins-ufko6g7wi"},"datePublished":"2022-04-04T14:33:59.100Z","dateModified":"2022-04-04T14:33:59.100Z","description":"Jenkins is an automation tool written in Java with built-in plugins for continuous integration tasks. 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