Creating a local agent
Local agents are no longer supported in Bamboo Data Center. Because of that we decided to standardize the naming and from now on we will refer to remote agents as simply agents.
A Bamboo agent is a service that can run job builds. There are the following types of Bamboo agents:
- Local agents run as part of the Bamboo server.
- Remote agents run on computers other than the Bamboo server, that run the remote agent tool
- Elastic agents run in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Ephemeral agents are a short-lived remote agents that start on-demand inside a Kubernetes cluster to carry out a single build or deployment before being shut down.
Local agents run in the Bamboo server's process, i.e. in the same JVM as the server. Each remote agent runs in its own process, i.e. has its own JVM.
Each agent has a defined set of capabilities and can only run builds for jobs whose requirements match the agent's capabilities.
Related pages:
To create a new local agent:
- Go to
> Build resources > Agents.
- Select Add local agent.
- Enter details for the agent. The name is displayed on the dashboard. The description is only visible to administrators.
- Select Add.
Note that your new local agent:
- will be enabled by default.
- will inherit all local server capabilities that are defined in your Bamboo system.
- will be able to run builds for all jobs whose requirements are met by the agent's capabilities (see Configuring a job's requirements).
Last modified on Sep 7, 2023
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