3 Defining Jenkins architecture
This chapter covers
- Understanding how Jenkins distributed builds work
- Understanding the roles of Jenkins master and worker nodes
- Architecting Jenkins in the cloud for scale
- Configuring multiple Jenkins masters
- Preparing an AWS environment and CLI configuration
In a distributed microservices architecture, you may have multiple services to build, test, and deploy regularly. Hence, having multiple build machines makes sense. While you can always run Jenkins in a standalone mode, running all builds on a central machine may not be the best option and will result in having a single point of failure (a single Jenkins server cannot handle the entire load for larger and heavier projects). Fortunately, Jenkins can also ...
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