tmpfs workspace

The tmpfs workspace plugin mounts a tmpfs filesystem for the workspace temporary files. This is useful when the workspace directory is placed on a slow medium (e.g. a hard disk drive), the build process performs lots of local I/O (e.g. building a vagrant box), and there is enough RAM to store data necessary for the build process. For example, the stretch-vagrant.yml manifest file from the examples directory takes 33 minutes to build on the plugin author’s home server. Using this plugin reduces this time to 3 minutes at the cost of 1.2GB of additional RAM usage.

Settings

This plugin has no settings. To enable it add "tmpfs_workspace":{} to the plugin section of the manifest.