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Practical DevOps, Second Edition

You're reading from   Practical DevOps, Second Edition Implement DevOps in your organization by effectively building, deploying, testing, and monitoring code

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788392570
Length 250 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing DevOps and Continuous Delivery FREE CHAPTER 2. A View from Orbit 3. How DevOps Affects Architecture 4. Everything is Code 5. Building the Code 6. Testing the Code 7. Deploying the Code 8. Monitoring the Code 9. Issue Tracking 10. The Internet of Things and DevOps 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Build slaves

To reduce build queues, you can add build slaves. The master server will send builds to the slaves based on a round-robin scheme or tie specific builds to specific build slaves.

The reason for this is usually that some builds have certain requirements on the host OS.

Build slaves can be used to increase the efficiency of parallel builds. They can also be used to build software on different operating systems. For instance, you can have a Linux Jenkins master server and Windows slaves for components that use Windows build tools. To build software for the Apple Mac, it's useful to have a Mac build slave, especially since Apple has quirky rules regarding the deployment of their OS on virtual servers.

There are several methods to add build slaves to a Jenkins master; see
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Distributed+builds.

In essence, there must be a way...

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