Jenkins architecture
Jenkins is a monolithic application based on a combination of a master and agents.
Jenkins master can be described as an orchestrator. It monitors sources, triggers jobs when predefined conditions are met, stores logs and artifacts, and performs a myriad of other tasks related to CI/CD orchestration. It does not run actual tasks but makes sure that they are executed.
Jenkins agent, on the other hand, does the actual work. When master triggers a job execution, the actual work is performed by an agent. We cannot scale Jenkins master. At least not in the same way as we scaled the go-demo service. We can create multiple Jenkins masters, but they cannot share the same file systems. Since Jenkins uses files to store its state, ...
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