Adding Windows Node to Jenkins Master

• Ensure your Jenkins Master is Running
• Create an Windows Instance with Java Installed. In this scenario we would use Windows 2016 Server
• Install Chocolatey and install Java 8
• To Connect Jenkins windows Node to Jenkins Master we use JNLP, To enable JNLP Navigate to Manage Jenkins => Global Security and Enable the Agents as shown below
• Navigate to Manage Jenkins => New Node and add the necessary configuration

• Now Create a Jenkins job to schedule the build on windows server

Build Parameters

• Build Parameters are the options to user to pass parameters while building the jobs
• Parameter types available are
  • String
  • Boolean
  • Choice
  • File
  • Credentials
• To use this parameters on the Linux node use the following syntax $Parameter-name
• Along with Build Parameters defined by the users Jenkins gives the list of Environmental Variables, To See complete list refer docs or do as shown below