Jenkins - Running a single job in master as well as slave

Question

I have a master (linux) and a windows slave set up, and would like to build a single job both on the master and the slave. The \"Restrict where this project can be run\" option

Answer 1

Well, in Jenkins you can create groups of machine (either master or slaves), to do this :

• click on the machine name on the first page of jenkins
• enter in the node configuration menu
• then, you can enter some labels in the Labels field. Let's add a mutli_platform label for example
• go back to the first page of Jenkins
• do it for each machine on which you need to run the job
• go back to the first page of Jenkins
• click on the job you want to run on multiple nodes
• go in the configuration menu
• check the Restrict where this project can be run and put the mutli_platform in it.

Then, your build will be able to run on the mutli_platform label.

For the second part, the multi-platform script, you can use ant builds, or python builds (with the python plugin).

EDIT: If you need to build on the 2 (or more) platforms, you should use a Matrix Job. You will be able to create a job and force it to run on every slave you need.