Every step in your pipeline executes on a build node that has been provisioned with a runtime environment. Through Pipelines DSL, you can control which runtimes your steps execute in.
For more information, see Managing Runtimes.
Runtime Images
A runtime image is a preconfigured Docker container that includes the necessary OS, software tools, packages, and configurations that a step needs to execute.
The JFrog Platform Deployment provides a standard set of runtime images that can be used for most applications. This set includes baseline runtimes with variants to support many commonly used languages. You can also create your own runtime images for specialized needs.
Nodes
To run any step in a pipeline, you need a build node (virtual machine) that will receive the runtime container where the step will execute.
You must provide nodes and attach them to your JFrog Pipelines project. A node can be on any infrastructure that you choose to use, whether it is from a cloud provider (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure), or on your own infrastructure if your security policies require your operations to remain behind your own firewall.
Nodes can be either static, which are available all the time, or dynamic, which are spun up on-demand through a cloud service.
Node Pools
A node pool is a convenient way to logically group nodes. This enables you to run steps simultaneously in a pipeline, maintain nodes of different architecture and operating system, pin steps to run on specific node types, and more.
A node pool is assigned a default runtime image. This default is automatically provisioned to its node unless a step overrides this behavior by specifying a different runtime.