What is a build agent in CI?

Question

Continuous Integration

I’m not completely familiar with continuous integration, but I would like to understand what it is, what it is eaten with. I read this article , but it describes installing a server on Windows Server. The question is, if my project contains a Visual Studio project, but the TeamCity server is located on Ubuntu, how can he build it? Do I understand correctly that this requires a build agent that executes build on the client (if the build agent and development are on the same computer) and already sends the result to TeamCity?

Answer 1

yes, this is the server on which the assembly takes place. Let's say I have one master server where Jenkins is installed, and 3 agents (one on a poppy for building under iOS and two on linux for android and web).
Better a separate server. A CI must always have access to its slaves. Although I think it can be perverted.