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Jenkins is an automation tool written which is open source. This tool is written in Java with plugins built for Continuous Integration purpose. Plugins allow integration of various DevOps stages. Jenkins is the most widely accepted tool for Continuous integration because of its flexibility and the amount of plugins that used. Jenkins supports plugins, which allow Jenkins to be extended to meet the specific needs of individual projects. Plugins can be categorized like JUnit, HTML Publishers, Jenkins Build Notification Plugin, Deploy Plugin, Maven Plugin and many more. Jenkins can be installed using a native system package, Docker, or even run standalone by any machine with a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed.