User Handbook overview

This page provides an overview of the documentation in the Jenkins User Handbook.

If you want to get up and running with Jenkins, see Installing Jenkins for procedures on how to install Jenkins on your supported platform of choice.

If you are a typical Jenkins user (of any skill level) who wants to know more about Jenkins usage, see Using Jenkins. Also refer to the separate Pipeline and Blue Ocean chapters for more information about these core Jenkins features.

If you are a Jenkins administrator and want to know more about managing Jenkins nodes and instances, see Managing Jenkins.

If you are a system administrator and want to learn how to back-up, restore, maintain as Jenkins servers and nodes, see Jenkins System Administration.