Is there a env variables for slave node home in JENKINS?

Question

We know there's a environment variable named JENKINS_HOME so we can use it anywhere as $JENKINS_HOME. But now when I running projects on slave nodes, I need to use the home directory of jenkins (which named "remote FS root" when defining a slave node) on slave node as a variable. And I found $JENKINS_HOME always be the home directory of jenkins on master node even I'm running projects on slave node.

Anyone can help? Thank you!

Answer 1

Old question, but seems never answered

The variable is not directly exposed in the job's environment, but you can figure it out ...

By default (ie: you did not set a custom workspace),

WORKSPACE=<RemoteFS>/<JOB_NAME>
and JOB_NAME includes folders if you use them.

ie: WORKSPACE=/path/to/remoteFSroot/myfolder/jobname
and JOB_NAME=myfolder/jobname

You can manipulate from there. But, there should be no need to store the data inside the remoteFS root and is even probably a bad idea, since you should be able to delete all the workspaces w/o impacting your data. Just store it in another directory (or even an NFS shared across all you slaves) and reference with a complete path.