August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
9h 16m
English
Dynamic slave provisioning and Jenkins Swarm can be both run on a cluster that results in the architecture presented in the following diagram:

Jenkins slaves are run on the cluster and therefore are very easily scaled up and down. If we need more Jenkins resources, we scale up Jenkins slaves. If we need more cluster resources, we add more physical machines to the cluster.
The difference between the two solutions is that the dynamic slave provisioning automatically adds a Jenkins slave to the cluster before each build. The benefit of such approach is that we don't even have to think ...
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