Installing jenkins with Docker

Question

How do I install Jenkins using Docker? Do I need to write a Dockerfile?

Answer 1

You don't really need to have a Dockerfile for this purpose. use the following command to pull Jenkins image

docker pull Jenkins

Run the image

docker run -d -p 49001:8080 -v $PWD/jenkins:/var/jenkins_home:z -t jenkins

Answer 2

• You should have docker properly installed on your machine. 
• First, pull the official jenkins image from Docker repository.

docker pull jenkins

• Next, run a container using this image and map data directory from the container to the host; 

In the example below /var/jenkins_home from the container is mapped to jenkins/ directory from the current path on the host. Jenkins 8080 port is also exposed to the host as 49001.

docker run -d -p 49001:8080 -v $PWD/jenkins:/var/jenkins_home:z -t jenkins/jenkins

Addtionally, you can configure nginx as a reverse proxy to your Jenkins instance, e.g:

upstream app {
    server 127.0.0.1:49001;
}
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name jenkins.your-domain.com;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://app;
    }
}