August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
9h 16m
English
Jenkins Swarm allows to dynamically add agents, but it says nothing about whether to use specific or Docker-based slaves, so we can use it for both. At first glance, Jenkins Swarm may not seem very useful. After all, we moved setting agents from master to slave, but still have to do it manually. However, as we will see later in Chapter 8, Clustering with Docker Swarm, Jenkins Swarm enables dynamic scaling of slaves on a cluster of servers.
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