DevOps / Bamboo: Continuous Integration & Deployment Interview Questions
What are the types of Bamboo agents?
Bamboo distinguishes agents mainly by where they run and how they scale.
| Local Agent | Remote Agent |
| Runs as part of the Bamboo server process itself. | Runs on a separate machine, installed independently and connected to the server. |
| Competes with the server for CPU/memory. | Isolated hardware, doesn't affect server performance. |
| Fine for small teams or evaluation, not recommended in production. | Standard for production; you can run many of them for parallelism. |
| Fixed capabilities matching the server host. | Can be provisioned with different OS/tooling per agent, including AWS elastic agents that scale automatically. |
Most real deployments run zero or one local agent and scale out with remote agents (including Elastic Bamboo agents on EC2 for bursty workloads).
Which statement about local vs remote agents is accurate?
For production-scale parallel builds, which agent type is the standard choice?
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