Understanding Jenkins CI/CD Using a Tiny Java Project
Most Jenkins tutorials immediately jump into Docker, Kubernetes, Maven, cloud deployments, and enterprise-scale architectures.
For someone learning CI/CD for the first time, that can become overwhelming very quickly.
In this article, we'll build a very lightweight but real Jenkins pipeline using a simple Java application. The goal is to understand how Jenkins works behind the scenes before introducing more advanced DevOps tools.
This example demonstrates:
