On Friday 19 August 2016, Baptiste Mathus <m...@batmat.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Fwiw, slave in Jenkins 1.x and "permanent agent" in Jenkins 2.x is indeed
> the same thing.
>
>
> Nit:

Agent and slave are the same thing. The "permanent" bit was added to
indicate that this is an agent that will stick around as distinct from an
agent provisioned by a cloud that will be removed when the cloud seems it
idle (ie the cloud ones are "temporary")

>
> This vocabulary change is the result of https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/
> browse/JENKINS-27268 to remove the term 'slave' from Jenkins.
>




> As for your question, I guess there's no general answer. IMO you have to
> go back to asking you what a /server/ does. Serve something?
>
> As for the "slave *server*" term you're using, well I'd be curious if you
> found that in some docs, since the "server" suffix would seem quite wrong
> in general IMO.
>
> My 2 cents
>
> Le 19 août 2016 12:52 AM, "Kiran" <catrinarain...@gmail.com
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>
>> In the context of Jenkins, is a slave server one that receives a build?
>> Or is it an auxiliary server that offloads some of the computing demand for
>> resources of a distributed build?
>>
>> With Jenkins 2.x, the term is "permanent agent."  I want to know
>> precisely what to call a server that receives a Jenkins build/deployment.
>> If a file receives code or a file from Jenkins, what is the server called?
>> Is it a managed node?  Is there no term for it?
>>
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