What Is a Jenkins Agent?

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[@doncambre]

I thought this was something new but an agent is just a Jenkins slave. So instead of Master/Slave as Jenkins has always been termed, the language has changed to Controller/Agent for the same paradigm. When did the language change in Jenkins for this?

[@kanchankhurana77]

really helpful in understanding the pupose of an agent.

[@lineuve]

Thanks Mr.

[@evgeniidvorkin4159]

Thanks for video

[@CrestMotivationLife]

Hi Darin, I want to thank you for Jenkin related youtube videos. Those helped me a lot in setting up Jenkin for performance testing process automation. I am curious about how the java agent is implemented and what kind of implementation is needed (like master-slave etc.) if I want to achieve the same using a python programming language. In case you have any info or document to refer then it will help me :)

[@godzilla47111]

So, what is a Jenkins Agent? Is it another Jenkins instance? Or is it a machine or container which the Jenkins Controller will connect to via e.g. ssh and execute maybe shell commands to execute some logic?

[@nallamekalapavankumarreddy4725]

agent means can i connect to another windows server and run batch script in that?
is this possible?

[@surajmane9090]

Still I didn’t get what is agent

[@majorgear1021]

How do you install the agent?

[@devopsinterview]

nyc

[@4epm]

it's master and slave : ))

[@girishananda3611]

yuk

[@nicolascuor2378]

It's master/slave in a politically correct version, suited for the woke community, who thinks that master/slave in computer science is unacceptable terminology. Sad people.