Documentation for Bamboo 4.2.x. Documentation for other versions of Bamboo is available too.

A Bamboo agent is a service that provides capabilities to run job builds. There are two types of Bamboo agents:

(info) Local agents run in the 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.)

If you are looking for information on elastic agents, please refer to the documentation on Working with Elastic Bamboo.

On this page:

Creating a new agent

To create a new agent, see:

Editing an agent's details

To edit an existing agent's details, see Editing an agent's details.

Configuring an agent's capabilities

To configure an existing agent's capabilities, see:

Disabling or deleting an agent

To disable or delete an agent, see Disabling or deleting an agent.

Notes

  • A capability is a feature of an agent. A capability can be:
    • an executable (e.g. Maven)
    • a JDK
    • a custom capability. This is a key-value property which defines a particular characteristic of an agent (e.g. 'operating.system=WindowsXP' or 'fast.builds=true').
    • a Version Control System client application (e.g. Git)

    Capabilities can be defined specifically for an agent, or they can be shared between either all local agents or all remote agents. Note that the value of an agent-specific capability overrides the value of a shared capability of the same name (if one exists).

 

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