How to set the bamboo agent id via the install process to an existing (last) value.

Question

In a cloud model where you destroy and deploy vms, I would like to tear down a group of agents and and re-install after they have been re-created using the same id.   I maintain a db of name/id values that allows this but the process of setting the value is not eligant. I was wondering if there was a cmdline -Dprop=value available.

Jan Swaelens1 · Accepted Answer

I don't think that there is a property for that (would like to have it also) but I think you can achieve your goal by running the agent installer with the 'install' directive, then going to the agent home and adapting the 'bamboo-agent.cfg.xml' file to change the agent name/id in the corresponding XML element. After this you can start the agent normally and I assume it wil use the configured values.

Haven't tried yet this but it is on my todo list.