As far as I know, there is no plugin that lets you run individual build steps on a different slave than the one that job originally started on. But there ways to mimic this behavior.
We do something like this in our own tests. One job starts up; it has a parameter that indicates another slave on which to run parts of the test. The original job (we call it the master job), then uses the Parameterized Trigger Plugin's build step plus the NodeLabel Plugin parameter to start another job (called a slave job) on the slave in question. The ParamTrig build step can be set to wait until the slave job is finished running - that gives us sequential behavior: steps run on the master, then on the slave, then on the master. Sometimes, we have to have steps running in parallel on the master and slave. In that case, the ParamTrig build step can also start the job on the slave then immediately return to its own steps. Synching the two executions can be difficult and tricky On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 6:18:29 AM UTC-8, alok kumar wrote: > > Hi, > Can anyone let me know if it is possible to execute different build steps > on different slaves from within a single job? > Is there any plugin that supports that? If not, what can be the workaround > to achieve the same? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Alok >
