Contributing

What is GoCD agent?

What is GoCD agent?

GoCD operates on a server-agent model where a server communicates with many agents. Agents are the workers in the GoCD ecosystem. Rather than having dedicated idle agents at all times, elastic agents allow you to scale up, with on-demand agents, based on the needs of the pipeline being executed.

What is GoCD used for?

GoCD helps you troubleshoot a broken pipeline by tracking every change from commit to deploy in real time. Compare content – both files and commit messages – across any two arbitrary builds. No plugin required, out of box CD.

How do I set up a GoCD agent?

Configuring the GoCD agent

  1. Open /usr/share/go-agent/wrapper-config/wrapper-properties. conf in your favourite text editor.
  2. Follow the instructions in the file to configure the GoCD server url.
  3. Save the file and exit your editor.
  4. Run service go-agent [start|restart] to (re)start the agent.

What is material in GoCD?

A material is the ’cause’ for a deployment pipeline to run. In most cases, it is a source code material repository (like Git, SVN, Mercurial, etc). A CD server continuously polls the configured materials and when a new change or commit is found, the corresponding pipelines are run or “triggered”.

How do I create a pipeline in GoCD?

New Pipeline Wizard Clicking on the Admin -> Pipelines menu item will take you to the pipelines administration page. Clicking on “Create a new pipeline within this group” button will take you to the “Add pipeline” page.

Is Jenkins a CD tool?

Jenkins is a leading open-source CI/CD tool used to deliver apps faster by introducing automation at different software development stages. It allows continuity in the software builds, enabling developers to detect errors early. It is easy to install and configure on popular platforms such as Windows UNIX and Mac OS.

Is Jenkins used for CI or CD?

Jenkins Today Originally developed by Kohsuke for continuous integration (CI), today Jenkins orchestrates the entire software delivery pipeline – called continuous delivery. Continuous delivery (CD), coupled with a DevOps culture, dramatically accelerates the delivery of software.

Is Jenkins for CI or CD?

Jenkins is a popular open source tool for CI/CD that is free to use. While you may need some server administration skills to configure and monitor Jenkins, there are many advantages to consider. The Jenkins project includes a large plugin ecosystem, the community around it is thriving and it is actively developed.

Do you need to specify resources for GoCD?

GoCD doesn’t have the ability to determine what operating system or other resources are present on a given agent. If you want particular jobs to run on particular agents, you’ll need to specify resources . You can specify one or more resources that a particular job needs in order to execute.

Can a GoCD server assign jobs to an agent?

In its default state, GoCD server will assign scheduled jobs to the first available agent. GoCD doesn’t have the ability to determine what operating system or other resources are present on a given agent. If you want particular jobs to run on particular agents, you’ll need to specify resources .

Where do I find the GoCD agent on my computer?

Once the GoCD agent has been installed and pointed at your GoCD server, go to the Agents tab on the GoCD dashboard. You should see something like this: Note that the hostname is as reported by the agent, and the IP address is as reported by the server.

What happens if you remove an agent from GoCD?

If you restart Go server, the agent will continue to be disabled. Disabled agents do not count towards GoCD’s licensed agents. To permanently remove an agent from Go’s configuration, you can use the agent api or delete from the agents tab.