So Bamboo has this cool feature where a job can have a set of requirements and be run on a remote agent that satisfy the requirements. I'd like to use this to compile source code on different targets. A downside to this I can see is if there is a testing stage... one must past the artifacts (binaries/outputs) from one job to another. Bamboo has features for this but my question is what happens when you have lots of jobs for building different targets and need to past them all to the next stage, wouldn't it take a lot of time to transfer these artifacts to be used? Secondly, source code must be pulled into each individual job, this creates a lot of overhead.
The alternative of course is to have one job that does all the work on a single machine so all files are located in one place and can be tested. There's down sides to this too, like not being able to utilize the job/staging workflow and thus build outputs would be ugly. Or if targets required different environments. etc...
Does anyone have any insight on this?
