Jenkins
App in the BluixApps catalog
What it is
Jenkins is the incumbent self-hosted CI/CD server — pipelines defined in Groovy DSL or Jenkinsfile, executed across distributed agents, with a plugin ecosystem of 1800+ extensions. Despite the rise of GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, Jenkins remains the standard for enterprise self-hosted CI/CD due to its flexibility and battle-tested reliability.
For teams who need to control every aspect of their CI pipeline and have invested in Jenkins skills, the incumbent reigns.
What it's for
- Enterprise CI/CD — build, test, deploy at any scale
- Multi-language pipelines — Maven, Gradle, npm, Python, anything
- Complex orchestration — multi-step builds with conditional logic
- Multi-platform builds — Linux + Windows + macOS agents
- Legacy app CI — Jenkins handles legacy build systems other tools can't
Who it's for
- Enterprise DevOps teams with established Jenkins investment
- Platform engineers managing CI/CD for multiple teams
- Build engineers orchestrating complex multi-stage releases
- Legacy modernization teams building on top of existing Jenkins
- Multi-platform development needing Windows + macOS + Linux build agents
Why teams pick Jenkins over alternatives
- MIT license — fully open, commercial use clear
- 1800+ plugins — most extensive integration ecosystem
- Battle-tested — production-deployed at every scale for 15+ years
- Distributed builds — agent model scales horizontally
- Pipeline-as-code — Jenkinsfile in repo, versioned with the build
- Active development — LTS releases, security backports
Integrations
- VCS — Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, SVN, Mercurial
- Build tools — Maven, Gradle, npm, pip, Make, anything CLI-callable
- Notification — Slack, Discord, email, webhook
- Container registries — Docker Hub, ECR, GCR, custom
- Cloud providers — AWS / GCP / Azure deployment plugins
- Code quality — SonarQube, Checkmarx, Snyk integration
- Artifact repositories — Artifactory, Nexus, ProGet
Notable users & community
- 23k+ GitHub stars on jenkinsci/jenkins
- Production-deployed at virtually every Fortune 500 company
- Backed by CloudBees + The Linux Foundation (Jenkins is a CDF project)
- Annual Jenkins User Conferences worldwide
- Strongest plugin marketplace in OSS CI/CD
Tips & operations
- Use LTS releases — Jenkins LTS gets security patches; weekly mainline can break
- Plugin update discipline — plugins update independently; test before bulk update
- Workspace cleanup — Jenkins workspaces accumulate; configure pipeline to clean up
- Agent isolation — never build untrusted code on master; use ephemeral agents
- Backup
$JENKINS_HOME— config + plugins + job history all here - Resource limits — set per-job CPU/RAM limits to prevent runaway builds
What we ship in BluixApps
- Docker compose: Jenkins LTS + agent pool
- Pinned
jenkins/jenkins:2.555.2-lts-jdk21(LTS branch) - HTTPS via Let's Encrypt
- Admin user via initial-admin-password (surfaced in install report)
- Persistent volume for
$JENKINS_HOME(config + plugins + jobs) - Docker-in-Docker for container-based builds
- Backup hook covers
$JENKINS_HOME
Get this app — pick a BluixApps plan
Same catalog. Scaling tenant isolation, white-label and support tier.
| Tier | Tenants | Catalog | Support | White-label | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stacks | 1 | 19 curated stacks | Standard | — | $19/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Starter | 10 | Full catalog | Standard | +$15–25/mo | $49/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Pro | 25 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $149/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Growth | 100 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $349/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Scale | 500 | Full catalog | 7-day window | +$15–25/mo | $799/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Enterprise | Unlimited | Full catalog | Priority 7-day | Bundled | $1,499/mo | DetailDeploy |
