I'm running Jenkins version 2.176.3 on Openshift online. And I want to build a pipeline which uses Docker commands to build the image. When I tried to build it gives me an error saying Docker command not found.
I think that is because I don't have Docker installed in Jenkins. I tried to do that using the Jenkins Plugin Manager but the Docker plugin requires Jenkins version 2.19 or later.
I also tried accessing the Jenkins container using oc CLI and tried to install Docker but did not work.
So what would be the best method for me to install Docker inside Jenkins?
The error means you need to have/install docker inside your agent/slave image. For a test purpose try to run your pipeline with docker images, which already contain docker tool.
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I am trying to start a container using Jenkins and a Dockerfile in my SCM.
Jenkins uses the Dockerfile from my SCM repository and builds the image on a remote server having a Dockerfile. This is done using the "cloud bees docker build and publish plugin".
When I ssh to the server, I see that the image has been built with the tags I had defined in Jenkins.
# docker image ls
What I am not able to do is run a container for the image that has been built. How to get the image-id and start the container? Shouldn't it have been very simple given many plugins are provided?
Could your problem be related to how to refer to the recently created docker in order tu run it? Can you provide an extract of your pipeline and how you are trying to achieve this?
It that was the case, there are different solutions, one being specifying a tag during the Docker creation, so you can then refer to it to run it.
In reply to how to work with image-ids, the docker build process will return the image id of the docker it creates. You can capture that id, and then use to run the docker.
start the container yourself on the VM by using standard docker run command.
use a software like watchtower to restart the container with an updated version when available
I had setup Jenkins using the Jenkins Docker Image on an AWS ECS Cluster with just one EC2 instance.
After the initial setup, I tried running the hello-world pipeline from Jenkins documentation. I see that I am getting "docker: not found"
I understand that this is because Docker is not installed and available within the Jenkins Docker container. However, I have a fundamental question on whether I should proceed with installing Docker inside the running Jenkins Docker container (to use that as the base image) or not. When I researched around, I found this blog post and this SO Answer.
I wanted to follow these suggestions and I tried mounting the volume /usr/bin/docker and the socket /var/run/docker.sock from the host EC2 / ECS instance to the Jenkins Container. After this, when I ran the docker version command to test the setup, I am getting linux library issues - docker: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory which indicates that the setup did not go well.
Here are my questions -
How to run Jenkins pipelines that use Docker containers when running Jenkins based on a Docker container? I want to be able to pull / build / run docker containers, say for example - run the hello-world pipeline example referenced above?
My end goal is to create 2 types of Jenkins jobs that do the following -
Jenkins Job Type 1
Check out repository from BitBucket cloud
Run a shell script to build a docker image for a java project (possibly using the maven jib plugin)
Publish to AWS ECR. (assuming this can be done using the cloudbees plugin)
Jenkins Job Type 2
Pull the image published from Job Type 1 from AWS ECR
Create a container from the image (which essentially runs the java application)
The container itself could be run on the same Jenkins ECR cluster with slaves. But, again should the slaves have docker installed within them to pull and run the image from ECR?
Asking these questions after a good amount of research and not finding answers. Any guidance is appreciated. Thanks.
I Googled the docker error you included in your post and found this StackOverflow post.
You have to install libltdl-dev in order to get everything working correctly
Since the errors are identical I suggest you give it a shot. As per the post, install libltdl-dev in the docker container.
Hi I'm learning how to use Jenkins integrated with Docker and I don't understand what should I do to communicate them.
I'm running Jenkins inside a Docker container and I want to build an image in a pipeline. So I need to execute some docker commands inside the Jenkins container.
So the thing here is where docker come from. I understand that we need to bind mount the docker host daemon (socket) to the Jenkins container but this container still needs the binaries to execute Docker.
I have seen some approaches to achieve this and I'm confused what should I do. I have seen:
bind mount the docker binary (/usr/local/bin/docker:/usr/bin/docker)
installing docker in the image
if I'm not wrong the blue ocean image comes with Docker pre-installed (I have not found any documentation of this)
Also I don't understand what Docker plugins for Jenkins can do for me.
Thanks!
Docker has a client server architecture. The server is the docker deamon and the client is basically the command line interface that allows you to execute docker ... from the command line.
Thus when running Jenkins inside Docker you will need access to connect to the deamon. This is acheieved by binding the /var/run/docker.sock into the container.
At this point you need something to communicate with the Deamon which is the server. You can either do that by providing access to docker binaries. This can be achived by either mounting the docker binaries, or installing the
client binaries inside the Jenkins container.
Alternatively, you can communicate with the deamon using the Docker Rest API without having the docker client binaries inside the Jenkins container. You can for instance build an image using the API.
Also I don't understand what Docker plugins for Jenkins can do for me
The Docker plugin for Jenkins isn't useful for the use case that you described. This plugin allows you to provision Jenkins slaves using Docker. You can for instance run a compilation inside a Docker container that gets automatically provisioned by Jenkins
It is not best practice to use Docker with Jenkins. It is also not a bad practice. The relationship between Jenkins and Docker is not determined in such a manner that having Docker is good or bad.
Jenkins is a Continuous Integration Server, which is a fancy way of saying "a service that builds stuff at various times, according to predefined rules"
If your end result is a docker image to be distributed, you have Jenkins call your docker build command, collect the output, and report on the success / failure of the docker build command.
If your end result is not a docker image, you have Jenkins call your non-docker build command, collect the output, and report on the success / failure of the non-docker build.
How you have the build launched depends on how you would build the product. Makefiles are launched with make, Apache Ant with ant, Apache Maven with mvn package, docker with docker build and so on. From Jenkin's perspective, it doesn't matter, provided you provide a complete set of rules to launch the build, collect the output, and report the success or failure.
Now, for the 'Docker plugin for Jenkins'. As #yamenk stated, Jenkins uses build slaves to perform the build. That plugin will launch the build slave within a Docker container. The thing built within that container may or may not be a docker image.
Finally, running Jenkins inside a docker container just means you need to bind your Docker-ized Jenkins to the external world, as #yamenk indicates, or you'll have trouble launching builds.
Bind mounting the docker binary into the jenkins image only works if the jenkins images is "close enough" - it has to contain the required shared libraries!
So when sing a standard jenkins/jenkins:2.150.1 within an ubuntu 18.04 this is not working unfortunately. (it looked so nice and slim ;)
So the the requirement is to build or find a docker image which contains a compatible docker client for the host docker service is.
Many people seem to install docker in their jenkins image....
I have installed jenkins 2.99 on my ICP V2.1. I have configured a pipeline job to build docker images and push to the local repository in a jenkinsfile, But the docker command is not getting recognised. I am getting the error
docker build -t <tag> .
/<>/script.sh: docker: not found
If docker has to be installed separately, how do we install?
Considering ICP (IBM Cloud Private) is an application platform for developing and managing on-premises, containerized applications, docker should be installed already.
Check, outside of Jenkins, that docker is recognized.
which docker
Then, in the Jenkins page displaying the Job result, check the Environment variable section, and see if the PATH would include the folder where docker is installed.
I would like to use the same host computer to execute Docker builds using the shell executor, as described in the link below, and normal builds using the docker executor.
I would like to be able to start builds of both types on the same host.
I would like to use the debian package provided for Ubuntu and installed via ant from the repository.
https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/docker/using_docker_build.html
In other words, if I run a project to build docker containers, the shell executor should run the commands against docker. If I build a source code project, the docker executor should run my build inside a docker container.
Can someone please describe the steps required to achieve such a configuration.
Run gitlab-runner register multiple times. It will always append new configurations to the same /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml file.