I went through a similar situation. We had an older version of Jenkins (1.534) on a standalone configuration. I took the approach of standing up a new instance of Jenkins, this time with a master/slave configuration. First I took inventory of all the plugins that were used on the old Jenkins server, and installed them on the new server, and also took not of the difference in version to anticipate what issues may arise when setting up new jobs. I then used the Job import plugin to pull in all the jobs I had on the old Jenkins server to the new server. This made is a lot easier to reconfigure the jobs slightly with the new master/slave configuration. Aside some minor issues I am working through. the transation wasn't too bad.
The advantages, also mentioned in the other posts are: - easier to upgrade Jenkins core with auto upgrade function - security updates - performance improvements Terry O On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 4:44:48 PM UTC-4, louwho wrote: > > Off and on, I have touched upon Jenkins. My expertise is InstallShield > development, with some Release engineering. Anyway, new project, taking > over the Jenkins build system also. Current Jenkins version is 1.609.3, > the Jenkins LTS is now 2.6.03. Putting aside (for now), the old adage of > 'if it an't broken, don't fix it', are there any real advantages to > upgrading to the latest version, or should I just leave it alone? The > product builds are building PowerBuilder and Java products..and then > InstallShield, copies to AWS S3, etc. We are also considering using some > third party tools that will allow us to move the Powerbuilder stuff from > the CVS repository to GIT. As an aside, does anyone know if you can have > two versions of PowerBuilder on the same build system? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/597ea375-c122-4daa-94cd-48fcafd07bf0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
