Sets up a container with jenkins installed listening on port 8080. This fork also includes git. This setup is a bit opinionated and will probably become moreso over time

To run the container, do the following:

docker run -d -P --name jenkins anichols/jenkins

docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                       COMMAND                CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                     NAMES
1131d37c38b1        anichols/jenkins:latest    java -jar /opt/jenki   12 seconds ago      Up 12 seconds       0.0.0.0:49153->8080/tcp   drunk_fermi

Your jenkins instance is now available by going to http://localhost:49153

Generally you'll want Jenkins bound to a static port so you can run with -p 8080:8080 for example to always run on port 8080

By default this is a basic Jenkins installation which doesn't contain many plugins. It is strongly recommended that you setup a persistent data volume for Jenkins so that you can upgrade this container and maintain your existing Jenkins configurations & plugins. The easiest way to do this is to bind mount the directory /jenkins inside the container to a directory on the Docker host.

mkdir -p /docker-jenkins

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -v '/docker-jenkins:/jenkins' --name jenkins
anichols/jenkins

This will persist all Jenkins configurations & plugins in a directory named /docker-jenkins on the Docker host. You can backup this directory if you choose or use one of the Jenkins backup plugins.

You may pass java arguments using the JAVA_OPTS environment variable. This is optional, but if you need to tune memory parameters you can do so:

docker run -e 'JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx=512m,-Xms=256m"' anichols/jenkins

This fork should allow jenkins to properly restart inside the container however if you want to stop/restart the container you can do so using docker:

To Stop: docker stop jenkins

To Restart: docker restart jenkins

To view Jenkins logs: docker logs jenkins

If you persist your Jenkins configuration on a volume outside the docker container then you can upgrade the container without losing any of your plugins/configuration. If you did not map your /jenkins directory to a persistent volume then this upgrade process will DESTROY all your Jenkins configurations & plugins.

If you want to upgrade the container it should be pretty simple:

docker stop jenkins
docker rm jenkins
docker pull anichols/jenkins
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -v '/docker-jenkins:/jenkins' --name jenkins
anichols/jenkins

To build the image, simply invoke

docker build github.com/adnichols/docker-jenkins

A prebuilt container is also available in the docker index

docker pull anichols/jenkins

• Aaron Nichols ([email protected])
• Allan Espinosa ([email protected]) - original author
• Gwenn Etourneau

Copyright 2014 Aaron Nichols

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