How to invoke docker container from Jenkins pipeline which is running as docker container on Docker For Windows

Question

I have installed docker for Windows on Windows 10. So I started off by pulling a Jenkins image and Jenkins is up and running.

I’m building a node application through Jenkins pipeline but within another container. I am new to docker and I can’t figure this out. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

All you need to do is mount the docker socket into the Jenkins container, so that Jenkins can start docker containers by calling the docker engine running in the host machine i.e. your VM. Try this command

docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock jenkins