Keep a Jenkins agent alive after a job finishes

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You can keep a Jenkins agent running after it completes a job. This is useful when you want to start additional jobs immediately, optimize resource usage, or review logs for debugging. You can control how long the Spot Jenkins plugin waits before terminating an idle agent.

Instructions

Open the Jenkins dashboard.
Go to the configuration page for your Spot Jenkins plugin.
Find the setting Idle minutes before termination.
Increase the number of minutes to match how long you want Jenkins to keep the agent running after it becomes idle.
Save the configuration.

Outcome

After you increase the idle timeout, Jenkins keeps Spot instances alive for the specified number of minutes after they finish a job. This gives you time to queue new jobs or review logs before the instance shuts down.

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