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_ · Accepted solution]

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.

[Shashank Kumar]

Hello K_ Scheel,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

You can read through the licensing query at https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/bamboo and let me know if this answers your above query. If you have any specific do let me know. 

Regards,

Shashank kumar

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