Akom's Tech Ruminations

Various tech outbursts - code and solutions to practical problems

Linux Jenkins Swarm Slaves on Windows using Puppet

Posted by Admin • Monday, October 12. 2015 • Category: DevOps, Linux
Jenkins Swarm plugin is great, and instrumentation for Linux is fairly well-known, but what about Windows? Here is one approach for setting it up as a windows sevice (what we want Puppet to do):
  1. Download Swarm jar
  2. Download winsw from Kohsuke
  3. Rename winsw to jenkins_swarm.exe
  4. Create jenkins_swarm.xml
  5. Run jenkins_swarm.exe install
  6. Start service
Now for the details

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Linux Jenkins Windows Slaves cannot install JDK

Posted by Admin • Monday, October 12. 2015 • Category: DevOps, Linux
Despite making the jenkins slave user a local administrator. The slave runs tools\hudson.model.JDK\JDK_1.7\jdk.exe (or 1.6), and fails (see the extended post body for the log).

If you're seeing Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package, then most likely you have another (newer?) version of this JDK installed system-wide. Uninstall from Control Panel, try again.

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