Multiple Jenkins Masters using a Shared Slave pool

Question

I am trying to scale Jenkins for a large organization. Is there a way to have multiple Jenkins masters share a slave pool? For example, if I had 200 Jenkins Masters and I want t

Answer 1

If it were me, I'd set up all the masters with a cloud plugin for slaves. For example, you could install the kubernetes plugin or the nomad plugin and connect all masters up to the same kubernetes or nomad cluster. Nomad or Kubernetes would take care of resource management, and the masters would only be submitting jobs to a shared pool of resources. This concept can easily be applied to other cloud providers, like AWS, but IMHO if you just want to set up an on-prem pool of resources for your jenkins masters from scratch, nomad is the easiest option.