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Mark Mc
Mark Mc

Reputation: 556

Jenkins labels - always use one node, but use others if not available

We have one particular build machine that we would like a Jenkins job to always use.

However, if this machine is not available for some reason, we would like it to use a backup machine/s.

I presumed that using the 'or' syntax in the label would achieve that goal, but it seems this is not what it was intended for.

For example, I have a machine called 'windows-01'. This is the machine I always want the job to run against unless it's offline. If offline, I'd like it to use the label 'BACKUP_MACHINES'. I was hoping I could do something like:

windows-01||BACKUP_MACHINES

Unfortunately, this doesn't work, it will still randomly select a machine. Does anyone aware of solutions or know of plugins for such a scenario?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1471

Answers (1)

yorammi
yorammi

Reputation: 6458

Use priority sorter plugin or similar alternatives (e.g. Scoring Load Banancer plugin).

Upvotes: 1

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