Setup Slave server for Jenkins

Description:  Here I have explained, How to setup Slave server for Jenkins on Ubuntu Machine

Setup:

1. Master Jenkins : localhost
2. Slave Machine : 3.90.0.161

Before setup slave server for jenkins, I am going set password for ubuntu user and create one folder for slave jenkins file. In this example I used /var/jenkins

Install java in slave Jenkins server using below command

# apt install java-jre

 

After create user and jenkins directory on slave, Open jenkins url navigate to Manage Jenkins --> Manage Node and Cloud --> New Node

After click on create button fill all the require details like name, Remote Directory, Usage, Launch Method, Host and credentials of slave machine.

Note: Host key Verification Strategy set : Non Verifying Verification Strategy

After fill all the details click on launch the agent, wait for some time. You will get output as follow

Now, I am creating one Free style project and check for the slave usage

In project, I have defined execute shell method under build as follow. It will show message Test Slave and run for 25 Seconds to validate the stage

echo "Test Slave"

sleep 25

Now I am going to save and build the job. Here you can see job executed from slave as follow

Also we can check output in console of the project as follow