Jenkins Agents: SSH Agents, Inbound Agents, Labels and Building Inside Docker Containers
With an SSH agent the controller opens the connection, with an inbound agent the agent does; you run the build on an agent chosen by label expressions or inside an SDK container with agent { docker }. Agent definitions with JCasC, real SSH and WebSocket connection logs, Docker Pipeline's workspace mount and the uid 1000 detail, disk usage with cleanWs, and a quick look at Kubernetes pod templates and Windows agents.
8 Nov 2026
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10 min
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