Jenkins Master (Server)

he Jenkins master acts to schedule the jobs, assign slaves, and send builds to slaves to execute the jobs. It will also monitor the slave state (offline or online) and get back the build result responses from slaves and display build results on the console output

Jenkins Agent

he Jenkins master acts to schedule the jobs, assign slaves, and send builds to slaves to execute the jobs. It will also monitor the slave state (offline or online) and get back the build result responses from slaves and display build results on the console output

Pre-requisites

A source code repository that can be accessed, for example, a Git repository. A build script, for example, a Maven script.

Task-01

• Create an agent by setting up a node on Jenkins

• Create a new AWS EC2 Instance and connect it to the master (Where Jenkins is installed)

• The connection of the master and agent requires SSH and the public-private key pair exchange.

• Verify its status under the "Nodes" section.

  Task-02

• Run your previous Jobs (which you built on Day 26, and Day 27) on the new agent

• Use labels for the agent, your master server should trigger builds for the agent server.