Jenkins supports the master/agent architecture. In master/agent architecture, we can install Jenkins on master and then utilize other agents for distributing the load.
We shoulddelegate Jenkins jobs to agents for execution. This way, we can support multiple executions using different resources.
There are specific scenarios where master/agent architecture is extremely useful, such as following:
- The Jenkins machine has limited capacity; even with the higher capacity, there will be a time where it can't fulfil all requests. By distributing the load on agent nodes, we can free resources available on the system where Jenkins is installed.
- Different jobs require different kinds of resources, and they are restricted to specific machines only. In such a case, we can only utilize that machine and it is not possible to configure it on a system...
