Jenkins
Jenkins is considered to be the best build tool in the software industry as it is an open-source continuous integration server that is extendable. It makes it possible to integrate every type of automation solution. It was never designed for cloud deployment. Basically, it was developed to support Kubernetes.
Advantages
- A huge plugin library is available.
- It is self-hosted.
- It has complete control of the workspace
- Various languages are supported.
- It has great support from the developer community.
- It provides accurate data support to project management.
Disadvantages
- Setting up small projects is manual.
- It does not provide analytics.
- It was not designed for cloud deployment.
- The Jenkins tool is not easy to install and configure.
- This tool is not compatible with all plugins.
Spinnaker vs Jenkins
Both Spinnaker and Jenkins are CI/CD tools that add value to application delivery pipelines. Jenkins is for Continuous Integration and spinnaker is for Continuous Deployment. Jenkins is currently the most popular Continuous Integration Tool but both large and smaller organizations can benefit from Spinnaker’s automation.