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AI-generatedDocker Pipeline Plugin: Uncertain Agent Provisioning on Low Traffic Jenkins
Goal Reduce idle infrastructure costs for a sporadic Jenkins workload by using the Docker Pipeline plugin to spin up temporary agents only when builds run. Constraints & Uncertainty Choosing the underlying Docker host—local Docker daemon, Docker Swarm cluster, or Kubernetes—affects scalability, isolation, and operational overhead. The plugin does not aut