What are jenkins plugins?

[amurleopard]

Jenkins has a section to manage plugins, with sections, updates, available, installed and advanced.

After logging in as admin
Manage Jenkins > Manage Plugins shows you all things "plugin". This the plugins allow you to configure you job with various tasks. For example the gradle plugin allows you to run gradle scripts. The image below show the build section calling the gradle plugin.

The number of jenkins plugins is what makes Jenkins very popular. You can find all the plugins on their website: https://plugins.jenkins.io