Is it possible to auto detect remote agent OS to use as requirement of a job?

Matthew McAtamney-Greenwood

I am trying to create a job that requires stages to build on both Linux and Windows.

Ideally I don't want to "dedicate" agents to the jobs, and instead I would like the jobs to auto select an available agent with the correct OS.

How can this be achieved?

Eduardo Alvarenga

Hello @Matthew McAtamney-Greenwood, welcome to Atlassian Community!

There is no embedded method that would allow Bamboo to identify the host Operating system of the Agent. But you can assign custom "Operating system" capabilities to your Agents and set them as Requirements on your Jobs.

• Defining a new custom capability
• Configuring a job's requirements 

You can also make the Agent report its capability back to Bamboo by using a bamboo-capabilities.properties file:

• Configuring remote agent capabilities using bamboo-capabilities.properties

In case you are using Elastic Agents:

• Configuring elastic agent capabilities 

 

Regards,

Eduardo Alvarenga
Atlassian Support APAC