Adding Jenkins slaves – standalone Linux machine/VMs

In the following section, we will try to add a standalone Linux machine as a Jenkins slave. Make sure you have Java installed on your soon-to-be Jenkins slave machine. Follow the given steps:

1. From the Jenkins dashboard, click on Manage Jenkins | Manage Nodes.
2. From the left-hand side menu, click on New Node. On the resultant page you will be asked to provide a name for your node and choose the type, as shown in the following screenshot:

Adding a name and choosing the agent type (type of slave)

3. Add a meaningful name under the Node name field and choose the agent type. For now, there is only one type of agent to choose from: that is, Permanent Agent. These are the types of agents that are mainly physical machines and VMs.
4. Click on the OK button to proceed.

5. On the resultant page, you will see the following options to configure, as shown in the following screenshot:

Jenkins slave configuration

Let's see them one by one:

1. We already used the Name field...