What is Jenkins plugin?

In computing terminology, a plugin is a simple software component which lets you and various features to the existing computers or programs. Plugin in jenkins also works in the same way, plugin lets you add more features and functionality which undoubtedly provides more flexibility to the system. There are 1000+ plugins provided in jenkins which are helpful in connection with multiple software and third party integrations into the jenkins.

As shown in the image above, from the jenkins console you can navigate to the button “manage jenkins” which is on the left side of the console. Once you click on that, you will land on another page where you can see lots of functionality which you can manage if you are the admin of the system. One we are highlighting here is about “manage plugin” functionality. By clicking on it you will be able to see plugins which can be integrated, which are already integrated and which need to be updated.

How To Install plugin in jenkins

As in the above image it is shown; it categories the plugins as available ones , Installed ones, Advanced and the one for which updates are available. From here you can manage the plugin of your choice. To install a new plugin, you can navigate to available plugin and in the search-bar search for the plugin which you want to install. Here i am searching for the ‘findbugs’ plugin and it showed me that plugin. once you find the plugin, do the tick mark as shown in the image below and you are good to install the desired plugin.

One most important thing which needs to be noted is the options available after the selection of plugins. It gives two options. you need to install the plugin without restarting the jenkins server or you want to download the plugin now and install it after restarting the jenkins server. Select the install without restart then your plugin will be installed in your jenkins server.

How To uninstall plugin in jenkins

as shown in the image go installed tab, here you can see list of plugins which are installed in your jenkins server. to uninstall the plugin, select the plugin(checkbox) and click on uninstall. That’s it in this way you can uninstall a plugin in jenkins. That’s all you need to know about Jenkins plugin.