Some most useful plugins in Jenkins:

• Amazon ECS Container Service

The objective of  ‘Amazon ECS Container Service’ plugin to manage Jenkins agent hosted on the CLOUD and at the same time helping in deploying Docker-based applications on a cloud. Each JENKIN build is carried out in separate docker container which gets cleaned up after.

• Dashboard View Plugin

This dashboard gives a bird view of the status of tasks configured in Jenkins. This is used for monitoring purposes. It also helps us in tracking the time taken in building jobs which are configured and entire time duration for all the jobs.

• View Job Filters Plugin

It creates views for Jenkins jobs. We can have a view of build status and different triggers.

• Build Pipeline Plugin

This gives us clear sight of jobs making our build pipeline also we can have a better look of upstream and downstream. Additionally, it helps us in defining manual triggers for some tasks which need some customization before executing. It is one of the critical plugins as it has in-built support of scripts which helps in building COMPLEX DevOps pipeline.

• Git Plugin

This plug-is needed in CASE If we need to access the GitHub but at the same time it works as a repository browser for other SCM providers.

• GitHub Integration Plugin

This is one of the basic plug-ins which we need to get the source code from code repository hosted with GIT. It helps us in scheduling build, pulling code base on regular interval from GIT to Jenkin. The build gets triggered automatically once scheduled.