jenkins-agent-systemd

Running Jenkins Swarm Agent as systemd Service

Add new user "jenkins-swarm" in Jenkins UI and allow this user to create new agents.
Create group jenkins and user jenkins on target host.
Install Swarm Plugin on master.
Create folders /var/lib/jenkins and /data/jenkins owned by jenkins and /etc/jenkins owned by root on agent VM.
Download jar from master ${JENKINS_URL}/swarm/swarm-client.jar and place it to /var/lib/jenkins/swarm-client.jar owned by jenkins.
Next, follow steps below and do not forget to update variables in swarm-agent file according to your setup.

Add these three files too /etc/jenkins/

agent-password
labels
swarm-agent

To start and stop jenkins-client

systemctl start jenkins-agent.service
systemctl stop jenkins-agent.service

To check service status

systemctl status -l jenkins-agent.service

To check on logs

journalctl -u jenkins-agent -f
journalctl -u jenkins-agent -f -o cat

less /var/log/messages

To enable service

systemctl enable jenkins-agent

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