Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

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1. Jenkins stable and more recent versions are available in a YUM repository. Following is a table that provides details for configuration of Agents:

# of executors	Here, we can specify the number of concurrent builds that Jenkins may execute on this agent node. Agents must have at least one executor, and in case we don't want any execution, then we can configure this setting as 0.
Remote root directory	An agent node requires us to have a directory dedicated to Jenkins. Specify the path to this directory on the agent. Use an absolute path only. All job configurations, build logs, and artifacts are stored on the master. Workspace is available on the agent node.
Labels	Labels or tags can be utilized to ...