CI with Jenkins: how to force building happen on slaves instead of master?

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hzxu picture hzxu · Dec 19, 2012 · Viewed 16.4k times · Source

I am using Jenkins for CI, I have a master and two slaves, master is running Jenkins and I want only slaves doing the actual building task, is there anywhere I can configure this? I know there is an 'executor', if I change it to 0 on master, probably master won't build anything, but is there any proper way to do this?

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Arnestig picture Arnestig · Dec 19, 2012

You can set where a job will be run using the "Restrict where this project can be run" option in your job. This setting can be used together with tags you have added to your slaves.

For example two slaves having the tag "Linux-buildserver" and using that tag will split the job up on those two slaves. Setting the IP-address as a tag in the job will make sure only that buildserver / slave is used.

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