Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) (or CI/CD) has become an integral part of software development and DevOps testing. It provides developers the necessary features so that they can deploy the code continuously. It detects bugs at an early stage and avoids integration problems due to frequent committing of source code. With so many CI/CD tools available in the market, it becomes essential to choose the best CI/CD tools that suit the budget and project requirements. To make it easy for you, we have created this list, which we hope will help you choose the best CI/CD tool.
1. Jenkins
Jenkins is a Java-based cross platform, open-source CI/CD tool. It offers continuous integration, along with facilitating continuous delivery. It also enables real-time testing and reporting. Jenkins can be installed by just downloading its executable in the .war format and starting the same from the terminal.
Jenkins Pipeline provides a set of tools that can be used for modeling delivery pipelines ‘as code.’ Jenkins implements the pipeline using DSL (Domain Specific Language). It is one of the widely used and best CI/CD tools as it is open-source and has existed for a long time.
Salient features of Jenkins
- Available for Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms.
- Free and open-source hence, it is preferable for startups as well as large-scale organizations.
- 16.3K Star & 6.5k Forked Repo on GitHub.
- Highly extensible.
- It has a thriving plugin ecosystem (1500+ plugins) and a best-in-class community.
- Integrates with popular cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Digital Ocean, and more.
- Can be leveraged for performing work in parallel and realizing complex CD requirements.
- The installer in the .war format that is a stand-alone Java application and works out of the box.
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