by Toomas Römer
Jenkins is believed to be a continuous integration tool, but in reality it is an orchestration platform with a GUI. The large set of plugins and the loose definition of projects lets you use Jenkins for operations that it was not originally meant for. We use it for building software, artifact propagation, release management, VCS branch propagation, cron replacement, server monitoring etc. In this session, I will go through the different successes and failures that we?ve experienced in the past years of using Hudson/Jenkins to get our products and company off the ground.