The Mettle Agent Host

The MettleCI Agent Host is a dedicated Microsoft Windows host which is used to run three major components:

• A DataStage Client tier,

• A MettleCI Command Line Interface, and

• A CI/CD agent/runner for your chosen CI/CD build platform (e.g. Jenkins Agent, Azure Agent, Bamboo Agent, GitLab Runner, GitHub Runner, etc.)

The MettleCI Agent Host operating system must be Microsoft Windows because the compilation of traditional (i.e., non-Cloud Pak) DataStage jobs can only be performed by tools available within the DataStage client. IBM only supplies these DataStage client tools for Windows.