Jenkins Pipelines
Jenkins Pipelines is a suite of plugins that supports implementing and integrating continuous delivery pipelines into Jenkins. It provides an extensible set of tools for modeling simple-to-complex delivery pipelines as code, using a domain-specific language (DSL) based on Groovy. Pipelines automate the process of building, testing, and deploying software, enabling teams to define their entire workflow in a script.
Developers should learn Jenkins Pipelines when they need to automate complex, multi-stage CI/CD workflows in a scalable and maintainable way, such as for large projects with multiple environments or microservices architectures. It is particularly useful for teams adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, as it allows pipeline definitions to be version-controlled alongside application code, ensuring consistency and repeatability across deployments.