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J0991
J0991

Reputation: 987

Jenkins Distributed Builds: virtual machines for master / agents

I am trying to understand Jenkins distributed builds. From what I have read, Jenkins master uses its' own JVM, and each agent / slave uses its' own JVM.

My Jenkins master is running on a machine with an Ubuntu 16.04 native OS. Am I correct in assuming that each master and agent / slave will have it's own JVM (as oppose to their own linux virtual machines)?

Am I also correct in assuming that once Jenkins master is installed and running, the Jenkins master will orchestrate spinning up the additional JVMs required for the Jenkins agent / slaves?

Thank you for any help,

Upvotes: 0

Views: 434

Answers (1)

StephenKing
StephenKing

Reputation: 37620

No, those agents/slaves should run not on the same system (aka VM) as the master. I guess they could, but there wouldn't be any benefits (which is usually: compute power).

If you want more simultaneous builds, add additional machines that have a JVM installed, where the Jenkins Master will launch its slaves (aka agents).

Upvotes: 1

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