Why should you use remote agents over local agents?

A local agent runs inside the Bamboo server process itself, which means every build it executes competes with the server for CPU, memory, and disk I/O — and a runaway build can degrade the whole Bamboo UI for every user.

Remote agents avoid that entirely by running on separate hardware, giving three concrete advantages:

1. Isolation — a heavy or misbehaving build can't starve the server.
2. Horizontal scale — adding capacity means adding more remote agents, not upgrading the server box.
3. Heterogeneous tooling — different remote agents can carry different capabilities (Node vs .NET vs mobile SDKs) so one server can support very different projects.

For anything beyond a small evaluation instance, remote agents are the recommended and expected production setup; local agents are really only meant for testing Bamboo itself.

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