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DevOps / Bamboo: Continuous Integration & Deployment Interview Questions

What is a Bamboo build agent?

A build agent is the worker process that actually executes a job's tasks — checking out code, compiling, running tests. The Bamboo server itself never runs build work directly; it only schedules jobs onto agents and stores the results.

Each agent advertises a set of capabilities (installed JDKs, executables, environment variables), and Bamboo only assigns a job to an agent whose capabilities satisfy that job's requirements. This is how the same server can support projects that need completely different toolchains, for example one job requiring Node 18 and another requiring .NET.

What is the role of a build agent in Bamboo?
Where do a job's tasks actually execute?

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