I have not been aware of the definitions in https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/glossary/. So thank you very much.
Am Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2020 13:40:54 UTC+2 schrieb Daniel Beck: > > > > > On 21. Jul 2020, at 23:05, 'Martin Schmude' via Jenkins Developers < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > This reminds me of that I am worried from time to time by the terms > "agent" and "node". > > They seem to be synonyms - am I right? > > If so, shouldn't "agent" be the preferred term, due to the decision of > 2016 and "node" be dropped? > > > > These terms are useful and consistent, as master can also be a node. By > default, it's even the only node. > > So "node" is an term for "master and agents" (at least the "executing > workloads" part of master, see my and others' feedback to the ongoing > terminology update that it could make sense to use different terms here). > > > to me, node = executor, but not really > > One node can have multiple executors. Executors are individual slots for a > single workload. > > By default, a new Jenkins installation has 1 node (the master) with 2 > executors, and 0 agents. > > All of that is also explained in https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/glossary/ > > -- 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 on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/fcff3711-107b-44a4-90c1-fb60f3ec13e9o%40googlegroups.com.
