Create Jenkins Docker Image with pre configured jobs - docker

Question

I have created a bunch of Local deployment pipeline jobs, these jobs do things like remove an existing container, build a service locally, build a docker image, run the container - etc. These are not CI/CD jobs, just small pipelines for deploying locally during dev.
What I want to do now is make this available to all our devs, so they can just simply spin up a local instance of jenkins that already contains the jobs.
My docker file is reasonably straight forward...
FROM jenkins:latest
USER root
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y sudo
RUN echo "jenkins ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
# Docker
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get dist-upgrade -y
RUN apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates -y
RUN sh -c "echo deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo debian-jessie main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list"
RUN apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-cache policy docker-engine
RUN apt-get install docker-engine -y
# .NET Core CLI dependencies
RUN echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://llvm.org/apt/jessie/ llvm-toolchain-jessie-3.6 main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/llvm.list \
&& wget -q -O - http://llvm.org/apt/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key|apt-key add - \
&& apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
clang-3.5 \
libc6 \
libcurl3 \
libgcc1 \
libicu52 \
liblldb-3.6 \
liblttng-ust0 \
libssl1.0.0 \
libstdc++6 \
libtinfo5 \
libunwind8 \
libuuid1 \
zlib1g \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
#DotNetCore
RUN curl -sSL -o dotnet.tar.gz https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=847105
RUN mkdir -p /opt/dotnet && tar zxf dotnet.tar.gz -C /opt/dotnet
RUN ln -s /opt/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin
# Minimal Jenkins Plugins
RUN /usr/local/bin/install-plugins.sh git matrix-auth workflow-aggregator docker-workflow blueocean credentials-binding
# Skip initial setup
ENV JAVA_OPTS -Djenkins.install.runSetupWizard=false
COPY LocallyDeployIdentityConfig.xml /var/jenkins_home/jobs/identity/config.xml
USER jenkins
What I thought I could do is simply copy a job config file into the /jobs/jobname folder and the job would appear, but not only does this not appear, but now I cannot manually create jobs either. I now get a java.io.IOException "No such file or directory" - Note when I exec into the running container, the job and jobname directories exist and my config file is in there.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

For anyone who is interested - I found a better solution. I simply map the jobs folder to a folder on my host, that way I can put the created jobs into source control and edit then add them without having to build a new docker image.
Sorted.

Answer 2

Jobs need to bootstrapped while the Jenkins starts can be copied to /usr/share/jenkins/ref/jobs/ folder.
But keep in mind that if the jobs(or any) already exist in Jenkins home folder, updates from /usr/share/jenkins/ref/jobs/ folder won't have any effect unless you end the files with *.override name.
https://github.com/jenkinsci/docker/blob/master/jenkins-support#L110
Dockerfile
# First time building of jenkins with the preconfigured job
COPY job_name/config.xml /usr/share/jenkins/ref/jobs/job_name/config.xml
# But if jobs need to be updated, suffix the file names with '.override'.
COPY job_name/config.xml.override /usr/share/jenkins/ref/jobs/job_name/config.xml.override

Answer 3

I maintain the jobs in a bootstrap folder together with configs etc.
To add a job (i.e. seedjob) I need to add the following to the Dockerfile:
# copy seedjob
COPY bootstrap/seedjob.xml /usr/share/jenkins/ref/jobs/seedjob/config.xml