Installing a Jenkins slave on a production server

In this section, we will install a Jenkins slave on the production server. This will allow us to perform deployment on the production server. Execute the following steps:

1. From the Jenkins dashboard, click on Manage Jenkins | Manage Nodes.
2. Once on the Node Manager page, from the left-hand side menu click on New Node.
3. Give your new Jenkins slave node a name, as shown:

Adding a new Jenkins slave

4. On the resultant page, you will be presented with a large number of options. Let us see them one by one.
5. For the Remote root directory field, add the value /home/jenkins.
6. For the Labels field, add the value production.
7. For the Usage field, choose Use this node as much as possible.
8. For the Launch method field, choose the option Launch slave agents via SSH.
9. Under the Host field, add the IP address of the production server.
10. Under the Credentials field, choose the credentials that we created in the previous section.

11. Leave the rest of the options as they are.
12. Once done...