My understanding is that agents do not download plugins at all, the plugins only reside on the controller.
On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM Phillipp Glanz <[email protected]> wrote: > To explain the point better, > If you have a controller node and multiple agents, the current flow seems > to be that after a plugin install. All nodes download the plugins directly > from jenkins.io. From my point of view, it would make more sense to get > them from the controller node if this node already has the plugin anyway. > Provided the agent and controller versions are the same. This would at > least greatly reduce the traffic that goes outside and calls jenkins.io > from the agents > > On Monday, February 3, 2025 at 5:38:34 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > >> What would be the consumer(s) of this cache? Other controller(s) in >> the same network? The generic caching functionality of something like >> Artifactory might be a better fit for this use case. >> >> On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM Phillipp Glanz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi everyone, >> > my name is Phillipp, I was at the Contributor Summit in Brussels on >> Friday, January 31st. During the presentation of the monthly traffic >> figures for Cloudflare, I had the idea of using the controller node as a >> cache for plugin downloads within the network. This could reduce latency or >> traffik to jenkins infrastructure. I would like to get feedback on my >> suggestion. >> > >> > Regards >> > Phillipp / TheMeinerLP >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/0752cb85-326e-4052-9ec5-cda97837d167n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/0752cb85-326e-4052-9ec5-cda97837d167n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAPiUgVcd%3DNAfULhock2%2B6FVSj4-9fusnAA_tWxqLdeHS_M4kFQ%40mail.gmail.com.
