Licensing of Ephemeral agents

K_ Scheel

The wording regarding licensing is a bit ambiguous. All the licensing info pages mention the number of "Remote Agents". Since there are three different types of agents (remote, ephemeral, elastic), it sounds like only true "Remote Agents" would count towards the license.

But I'm assuming that's not actually the case, and elastic/ephemeral agents consume the license just like a regular remote agent?

The elastic instance documentation  confirms this:

An elastic agent is counted as a remote agent for licensing purposes

 

But I couldn't find anything specific about ephemeral agents.

Steffen Opel [Utoolity]

You are assuming correctly, all three different types of agents (remote, ephemeral, elastic) are technically 'remote', which basically means that they are running in their own JVM and thus need to communicate with the Bamboo host via the network.

This contrast with the long deprecated 'local' agents that are running inside the same JVM as the Bamboo host - local agents are no longer available as of Bamboo 9.6, see Difference between Bamboo Local agents and Remote Agents if you want to learn more regardless.

You've already confirmed the 'remote' license aspect of Elastic agents, and while section Ephemeral agents does not mention licensing explicitly, it still confirms the 'remote' characteristics that will use a license slot per running agent:

An ephemeral agent is a short-lived remote agent that starts on-demand inside a Kubernetes cluster to carry out a single build or deployment before being shut down.