On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:28 PM, JonathanRRogers
<jonathanrrog...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> On Sunday, February 24, 2013 11:02:58 AM UTC-5, LesMikesell wrote:
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>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Syed Mahdi <aliraz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > (I am under the impression that slaves are only job running machines so
>> > the
>> > configuration lies only in Master. So if that is not true, also, if i
>> > configure the security in jenkins, Will the jobs running on slaves be
>> > visible to some other users or can i control which user can access which
>> > slave or can i control which user can see which job?
>>
>> Jobs running on the master will all run under the same user id.
>
>
> They will share many aspects of the system environment, such as file systems
> and network ports. My test environment needs certain services running on
> certain ports so I have to use multiple slaves to run tests for more than
> one git branch at a time, though some of those slaves are running in virtual
> machines on the same physical machine.
>
And, just to make what should be a simple decision more complicated,
note that you can virtual machines for either the master or slaves or
both, and if it has sufficient capacity they might all be on the same
physical host. In fact starting out that way can make migration to
additional hardware easier.
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