Thanks a lot. tested with success. master and slave on same unix machine without doing anything else that playing with "add a node" in Jenkins administration.
Concerning ressource taken by jenkins slave. do you have an idea ? Because if we need one slave per user on the unix machine, there could be a ressource problem. Le samedi 10 octobre 2015 00:02:43 UTC+2, Mark Waite a écrit : > > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 3:58 PM armandooooo <arman...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> thanks a lot for details. >> >> I was told that one jenkins installation must be configured as master OR >> slave. >> >> When I read your post, it seems that it is possible to configure a slave >> on the same machine without installing another Jenkins installation and >> configure it as a slave: >> >> one jenkins installation could be configured as a master and also be used >> to configure other slaves ? right ? >> > > That's right. > > The general guidance is one slave per machine because a single slave can > have multiple executors. Executors are lighter weight than slaves, since > they exist within a slave. Your use case is atypical because you need > different system level attributes (logged in user, signing certificate > access, etc.) for different jobs. > > Mark Waite > > >> 2015-10-09 23:51 GMT+02:00 Mark Waite <mark.ea...@gmail.com <javascript:> >> >: >> >>> I can confirm that it is possible to have a master and a slave on the >>> same Linux machine where the master runs as one user and the slave runs as >>> another user. >>> >>> It is atypical because most Jenkins users don't need a specific user to >>> execute their build steps. It is not abnormal or hard to do. >>> >>> I've never seen any documentation which describes how to do that, though >>> there are help icons beside each of the fields which control that behavior. >>> >>> Using our Jenkins server (running as the user "jenkins"), I configured a >>> slave to run as the user "mwaite" on the same machine by configuring a >>> slave, and selecting credentials for the user mwaite from the "Advanced" >>> section of the Jenkins nodes configuration page. Then I ran a job on that >>> slave which executed the command "id". That command showed that the slave >>> is running as the user "mwaite" as expected. >>> >>> Mark Waite >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 3:15 PM iostrym <arman...@gmail.com <javascript:>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks a lot for your answer. >>>> >>>> Then can you confirm me that it is possible to have a master (user >>>> jenkins) and its slave (user TOTO) on the same linux machine ? >>>> >>>> If yes, is it a abnormal and tricky way of doing (hard to do, badly >>>> documented, with low chance of success) or is it a common way of doing ? >>>> >>>> >>>> Le vendredi 9 octobre 2015 22:58:05 UTC+2, Mark Waite a écrit : >>>> >>>>> The Jenkins slave launch will allow you to launch the slave as the >>>>> user TOTO. Then all jobs which run on that slave will be executed as the >>>>> user TOTO. You can even run multiple slaves as the same user (though I >>>>> don't know why you would), so long as you use a distinct directory for >>>>> each >>>>> of the slaves. >>>>> >>>>> Mark Waite >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:03 AM iostrym <arman...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>> We have a multi-user linux server. >>>>>> >>>>>> Jenkins in installed and configured as master. >>>>>> >>>>>> Some jobs need to be run by a user TOTO for some specific reasons >>>>>> (license access for example) >>>>>> >>>>>> One of our solution is to use "execute shell script on remote host >>>>>> using ssh" but then the workspace is still on the jenkins user whereas >>>>>> data >>>>>> are generated on the TOTO home directory. We would like to avoid a >>>>>> script >>>>>> to move data generated (pretty dirty) >>>>>> >>>>>> So I wonder if it is possible to install a slave jenkins for each >>>>>> user on the same linux machine ? 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