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The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm
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The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm

by Viktor Farcic
May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
436 pages
9h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Defining Pipeline nodes

In the Jenkins Pipeline DSL, a node is a step that does two things, typically by enlisting help from available executors on agents.

A node schedules the steps contained within it by adding them to the Jenkins build queue. That way, as soon as an executor slot is free on a node, the appropriate steps will be run.

It also creates a workspace, meaning a file directory specific to a particular job, where resource-intensive processing can occur without negatively impacting your Pipeline performance. Workspaces created by a node are automatically removed after all the steps contained inside the node declaration finish executing. It is a best practice to do all material work, such as building or running shell scripts, within ...

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