The Jenkins open source continuous integration and delivery platform has released version 2 of its software. The update improves usability with features like coding pipelines, suggested configurations, suggested plug-ins and better documentation. It also improves default security settings.
However, Jenkins rivals like CircleCI and Atlassian say Jenkins doesn’t offer the same scalability that they do. Jenkins project members said they plan to address scalability in a later release.
Jenkins is popular with enterprise application development teams that take a DevOps approach.