Understanding Build Parts

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Software builds are often complex systems with many inputs that must be carefully set up and configured. Correctly distributing system processes over a cluster of computers or hosts requires efficient replication of relevant parts of the build setup on each host.

CloudBees Accelerator software is designed to help virtualize your build environment on each cluster host so distributed jobs display the same behavior as compared to how those jobs run serially on one computer.

Because input configurations can vary from one build to the next, CloudBees Accelerator virtualization is active only while the build is running. When the build completes, the host returns to its original state. Consequently, different builds can share a cluster without danger of conflicting changes corrupting host configuration.

Software builds are often complex systems with many inputs that must be carefully set up and configured. Correctly distributing system processes over multiple agents requires efficient replication of relevant parts of the build setup.

CloudBees Accelerator Developer Edition software is designed to help virtualize your build environment for each local agent so distributed jobs display the same behavior as compared to how those jobs run serially.

Because input configurations can vary from one build to the next, CloudBees Accelerator Developer Edition virtualization is active only while the build is running. When the build completes, the host returns to its original state.