swarm-plugin

Swarm

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Swarm enables nodes to join a nearby Jenkins master, thereby forming an ad-hoc cluster. This plugin makes it easier to scale a Jenkins cluster by spinning up and tearing down new nodes.

This plugin consists of two pieces:

A self-contained client that can join an existing Jenkins master.

A plugin that needs to be installed on Jenkins master to accept Swarm clients.

With the Swarm client, a person who is willing to contribute some of his computing power to the cluster just needs to run a virtual machine with the Swarm client and the cluster gets an additional agent. Because the Swarm client is running on a separate VM, there is no need to worry about the builds/tests interfering with the host system or altering its settings unexpectedly.