How to Launch an Agent for Each Parallel Step in a Job

Using Jenkins
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Hello! I just have setup a new Jenkins system on Kubernetes using the official Helm chart. We also have it configured to launch an agent when a new job is executed. Once the job is done that agent runs for another 10 minutes. If no other job needs that agent it shuts itself down after that.

What I would like to do is configure some of our parallel pipelines to launch a single agent for each parallel step in a pipeline. So if a pipeline has 3 parallel steps and no agents are currently running the job would launch 3 separate agents, one for each step.

Is it possible to configure a pipeline to work like that?

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Under the condition that you put the node step where you request an agent inside the parallel stages, that is easily possible with scripted pipeline.

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Thank you @mawinter69 ! It turns out that the agents I was using before didn’t have enough RAM. Once I resized them in the Helm chart I got the results I wanted.