How to change the default capabilities for Elastic Agent Image Configurations in Bamboo
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Summary
It may be desirable to change the default capabilities that are applied to an Image Configuration for Elastic Bamboo / Elastic Agents. This knowledge base article will describe the steps to do this. Please note, the two separate configurations are applied based on Product (aka Operating System) set for the image configuration: Windows or Linux. Templates cannot be configured at a more granular level than this.
Solution
Two files can be found at the below location on your Bamboo server which can be modified:
$BAMBOO_INSTALL/atlassian-bamboo/WEB-INF/classes/
- elastic-image-capabilities.properties
- elastic-image-capabilities-windows.propertieselastic-image-capabilities.propertiesis applied to Linux based configurationselastic-image-capabilities-windows.propertiesis applied to Windows based configurations.
Edits to these files do not require Bamboo to be restarted.
The formatting of this file follows the same syntax and rules as the bamboo-capabilities.properties files for remote agents:
Any properties added to, or modified on the elastic-image-capabilities file will only be considered by new Elastic Image configurations, meaning that existing Images will not be modified. If you need capabilities to be added to an existing Image, delete and recreate it.