With more than 1700 plugins available Jenkins build system provides integrations for hundreds of tools and services and therefore allows you to customize almost anything to your needs.

Top Plugin installations (> 2500) ^{(Source: Monthly Jenkins Statistics)}

Such a powerful extension system also has its drawbacks:

• inherent complexity for new plugin developers
• version conflicts due to dependencies with core and other plugins
• high maintenance installing, configuring and keeping plugins up-to-date
• out-dated, low-quality plugins written by third parties with losing support