Webinar recording and Q&A: What’s New in TeamCity 2018.2
Missed the webinar? No problem – the recording of our January 8 webinar, What’s New in TeamCity 2018.2, is now available.
In this webinar, Anton Arhipov showcases the major features of the latest release. He goes over the secondary node setup and explanation, building GitHub pull requests, showcases the simplified installation of plugins, previewing Kotlin DSL configuration in the UI, automatic assignment of investigations, and metadata in tests.
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Q&A from the session
Q: Can secondary server node feature be used for migration to another server (add secondary, remove primary)?
A: Read-only (available in 2018.1 already) node can to some extent. We also plan to cover the use case when further extending the multi-node setup.
Q: The example shown for secondary nodes had both servers running on the same computer. Is this required, or can the secondary node be on a different system? And if it can be different, can it be on a different OS (Linux/Windows, etc.)?
A: They can be installed on different machines. Different OSes are also supported. It is required to share the data directory somehow (Windows SMB or Linux NFS will work). Still, it makes sense to have the same OS for both servers to simplify the setup.
Q: Does the Agent and/or Server restart when installing new plugins?
A: The server loads the plugin without restart. Since this plugin brings in an agent part, that agent part is automatically downloaded by all the agents and the agents are restarted automatically. This agent update just takes some time.
Q: When an Agent restarts, is it rebooting the machine or stopping and starting the TeamCity agent service?
A: Only the TeamCity agent service is restarted. The Agent restarts and updates without the whole machine restart.
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