How Industries are using Jenkins?

Sumayya Khatoon
4 min readMar 31, 2021

Hello Folks!! In this Blog we’re gonna discuss about how Industries are using Jenkins. So, guys let’s get going…

In Today’s world of Agile and DevOps, Jenkins has become an indispensable tool for both Java programmers and DevOps engineers. Jenkins allows you to set up Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline, which reduces risk on Software development and delivery.

This means hassle-free development and deployment. It also means quicker feedback because as soon as a commit has been made into a source control system like Git, Jenkins can start building artifacts and running unit tests.

If the build failed due to an issue or if a unit test doesn’t pass, you will receive an email instantly. This quick feedback loop ensures that your codebase remains error-free.

It is also one of the most compelling technologies of the last decade in terms of its disruption to software development and operational practices. Many people believe that Jenkins started the DevOps revolution by offering Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.

The Jenkins Continuous Integration solution has become a standby in organizations of all sizes that want to increase productivity and streamline software development in the era of Agile. It has extensive community support has extended the core functionality of Jenkins by developing thousands of useful plugins.

An ecosystem of more than 1,100 plugins has emerged, enabling customers to add all sorts of functionality and integrate Jenkins with everything from Active Directory to GitHub to Tomcat.

Jenkins is also becoming a must-have tool for DevOps. It allows companies to build very sophisticated build pipelines very quickly, thus significantly reducing the risk within the software development lifecycle.

Tons of companies have already been using Jenkins to implement a continuous integration pipeline. Today you have access to that same technology right on your desktop.

The image depicts that Jenkins is integrating various DevOps stages.

Jenkins offers some of the features:

  • Hosted internally
  • Free open source
  • Tons of integrations
  • Rich set of plugins
  • Support for build pipelines
  • Open source
  • Workflow plugin
  • Easy setup
  • It is open-source
  • Great to build, deploy or launch anything async

Industries Using Jenkins!

  1. Topdanmark:

Topdanmark, a leading Danish insurer chooses Jenkins as the “de facto” product to build their CI/CD platform.

Challenge:

Balancing the needs of DevOps modernization and cloud migration while maintaining legacy systems.

Solution:

A highly-configurable CI/CD platform which allows for automation and ease of development.

Results:

  • 100% automatic creation of Jenkins instances
  • the ability to release and deploy an artifact whenever, wherever
  • software developers focused on developing software rather than operations
  • smaller monoliths and containerization

2. Netflix:

Netflix is a streaming service that offers a wide variety of award-winning TV shows, movies, anime, documentaries, and more on thousands of internet-connected devices. So Netflix greatly uses Jenkins for its use case. Once a line of code has been built and tested locally using Nebula, it is ready for continuous integration and deployment. The first step is to push the updated source code to a git repository. Teams are free to find a git workflow that works for them.

Once the change is committed, a Jenkins job is triggered. Netflix’s use of Jenkins for continuous integration has evolved over the years. They started with a single massive Jenkins master in their datacenter and have evolved to running 25 Jenkins masters in AWS. Jenkins is used throughout Netflix for a variety of automation tasks above just simple continuous integration.

A Jenkins job is configured to invoke Nebula to build, test and package the application code. If the repository being built is a library, Nebula will publish the .jar to our artifact repository. If the repository is an application, then the Nebula ospackage plugin will be executed.

3. Tymit:

Challenge:

Create a solidly reliable CI/CD platform that provides the technology team with the agility and the flexibility needed to innovate while ensuring the security and scalability their fintech service requires.

Solution:

Tymit, a revolutionary credit card processing company, leveraged Jenkins to build a compliant, transparent and secure modern DevOps platform to drive product innovation, handle instant financial transactions and support thousands of users in real-time.

Results:

  • faster delivery of mobile, microservices and operational services
  • reduced software testing and release cycles by 50%
  • ability to support thousands of users for real-time transactions
  • created a secure, controlled and compliant fintech environment.

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Sumayya Khatoon

Machine Learning || Deep Learning || Kubernetes|| Docker || AWS || Jenkins || Ansible(RH294) || Python || Linux(RHEL8 )