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Jenkins master/slave

  • In Jenkins, as in many other software project the terminology master/slave was in use.
  • The word master is still in use describing the central Jenkins server.
  • Instead of the word slave these days the Jenkins project mostly uses worker or agent.
  • You'll still encounter the word "slave" in many places hence I leave this explanation here.