Jenkins is a powerful open-source automation server designed to streamline software development processes, including building, testing, and deploying applications. It enables teams to implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) efficiently, ensuring high-quality software releases with minimal manual intervention.

Features of Jenkins:

• Web-based interface for managing and automating software build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Seamless integration with version control systems like Git, Subversion, and Mercurial.
• Flexible and customizable pipelines for automating complex CI/CD processes.
• Real-time notifications for build failures, test results, and deployment statuses via email, Slack, and other communication tools.
• Vast plugin ecosystem to extend functionality and integrate Jenkins with various tools and services.

Accessing Jenkins: Navigate to http://your_server_ip:8080 and log in with your administrator credentials.

To view the password, use the cat command as sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Disclaimer: Jenkins is an open-source project distributed under the MIT License. It is provided "as is" without any warranties, express or implied. Users are responsible for configuring and using Jenkins according to their CI/CD requirements.