Summary
In this chapter, we learned how to add and configure Jenkins slaves on standalone Windows and Linux machines (physical/VMs), using two widely used methods: Launching Jenkins slave via SSH
and Launching Jenkins Slave via Java Web Start
. We also learned how to install and configure the Docker plugin
for Jenkins that allows us to create on-demand Docker containers (Jenkins slaves) for our CI.
In the next chapter, we will learn how to implement continuous integration using Jenkins, and we will utilize the distributed build farm using Jenkins Docker containers (Jenkins slaves) to perform our CI.