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AnupamMahapatra
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Docker + Jenkins: Chemistry

With jenkins you can use docker in two contexts.

1 - use docker container from a private repo as the jenkins node to build your code

2 - use jenkins node to build your docker container and probably push it to your private repo

This was confusing when i started and so i want to declutter this :

Assuming

  • you have a jenkins single agent cluster with docker daemon running on that agent.
  • a private docker registry with credentials to pull and push

use docker container from a private repo as the jenkins node to build your code

pipeline {

    /* start with outmost.*/
    agent any

    /* This method fetches a container defination from the registered repo and build and runs the steps inside it.*/
    stages {
        stage('Test') {
            agent {
                    docker { 
                        image 'node:7-alpine' 
                        registryUrl 'https://my-docker-virtual.artifactory.rogers.com/'
                        registryCredentialsId 'ARTIFACTORY_USER'
                        }
            }
            steps {
                sh 'node --version'
            }
        }
    }
}
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  • IMPORTANT: Inside this container, i have no context of the docker which is running on bare metal jenkins. hence i have no context of the registry . I can not write a push command in the steps as i am inside the container.
  • I can also use a docker file as a agent definition instead of fetching a docker definition from registry
pipeline {
    agent { dockerfile true }
    stages {
        stage('Test') {
            steps {
                sh 'node --version'
                sh 'svn --version'
            }
        }
    }
}
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  • Here it is looking into the root directory for the Dockerfile which it will use as a build agent.

use jenkins node to build your docker container and probably push it to your private repo

node {

    checkout scm

    docker.withRegistry('https://registry.hub.docker.com','dockerhubcredentails'){
    def myImage= docker.build("digitaldockerimages/busybox:0.0.1")

    /*push container to the registry*/
    myImage.push()
    }
}
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Here i am using a private registry and fetching the credentials for the registry from jenkins secret storage.

Ref:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z32yzy4TrKM

https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/docker/#sidecar

https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-model-definition-plugin/wiki/Controlling-your-build-environment

https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-39684

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