Jenkins is a marvelous piece of software. As an execution and automation engine, it's one of the best you're going to find. Jenkins serves as a key component in countless continuous integration (CI) systems, and this is a testament to the value of what its community has built over the years. But that's what it is—a component. Jenkins is not a CI system itself; it just runs things for you. It does that really well and has a variety of built-ins and a vibrant ecosystem of plugins to help you tell it what to run, when, and where.
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