Introducing Jenkins

Learn about Jenkins' power, popularity, scalability, and katas.

Jenkins began its life as Hudson, a build automation tool written in Java. While working at Sun Microsystems, Hudson was first developed in 2004 by Koshuke Kawaguchi. When Oracle bought Sun in 2009, a dispute over the Hudson name led its maintainers to rename the project to Jenkins. Open-source development of the CI system formerly known as Hudson continues under the Jenkins name. Jenkins went on to win awards as a Java application and as a CI tool.

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