title: Jenkins multiple masters
body: <p>We are planning to implement a little Jenkins server farm which will continuously build our binaries as code is getting checked in. </p>
  
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  <li>Plan to have around 500-600 odd VMs in this farm</li>
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  <p>A few questions that arise then are:</p>
  
  <p>1) Should we go with 1 master - multiple slave configuration OR should we have a multiple master-multiple slave configuration? The second seems the obvious choice, however, reading around I found out that resource utilization is much better with the first option. </p>
  
  <p>2) Is there a Jenkins plugin which can facilitate multiple masters - basically so that if a job comes in it is load balanced across the masters which then delegate it to any available slave. </p>
  
  <p>3) Can Jenkins scale upto 500-600 slaves with 1 master alone? </p>