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You should have Docker properly installed on your machine. Check Docker installation guide for details.

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; e.g 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;
    }
}
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11 Comments

  1. Unknown User (sravanb)

    I was able to pull image successfully and while I run the image the volume link was working fine too, but the container is dying after some seconds. So I was unable to see jenkins up & running. Any ideas? Thank you!

    1. Unknown User (ralphbean)

      Try adding `:z` at the end of the mount like this:$ docker run -d -p 49001:8080 -v $PWD/jenkins:/var/jenkins_home:z -t jenkins

      That sets the selinux context, which may be incorrect.

  2. Unknown User (eranmark)

    How can I set it for persistance, in case docker service is restarted?

    1. Unknown User (lmcdasm)

      add --restart=always to the command line

       

  3. Unknown User (yogen_prasad)

    Hi Markus,

    For making the Jenkins Configuration persistant , you can just use Docker container volumes.

    In you Compose.yml :

    volumes:
       jenkins_conf:

    and under your Jenkins service add volune as :- jenkins_conf:/var/jenkins_home/

    Thanks

     

  4. Unknown User (lub121)

    How to update jenkins docker container?
    Jenkins in my docker version is Jenkins 2.60.3  and latest update is 2.73.3 ?

    1. Unknown User (jennbriden)

      To update your Jenkins instance, just rerun the initial command:

      docker pull jenkins

  5. Unknown User (naktinis)

    I ran all the commands as provided and I get an error running "docker run ...":

    touch: cannot touch '/var/jenkins_home/copy_reference_file.log': Permission denied
    Can not write to /var/jenkins_home/copy_reference_file.log. Wrong volume permissions?

    My uid is 1001, but for some reason docker runs it as uid 1000, which is a different user.

    I'm running it on ubuntu and it's a pretty standard configuration, so I believe you should at least mention this in this documentation page. Or maybe even consider redesigning the installation procedure somehow.

    1. Unknown User (plamenti)

      Hi R Nak,

      This works for me:

      1. Prepare the volume directory:
        $ mkdir $PWD/jenkins
      2. The directory need to be separated with the admin ownership to keep the Jenkins home:
        $ chown 1000 $PWD/jenkins
      3. Now run the command from the example:
        docker run -d -p 49001:8080 -v $PWD/jenkins:/var/jenkins_home:z -t jenkins

    2. Unknown User (jennbriden)

      Also, make sure that Docker is configured to have access to the host volume where you are storing the files. For example, C:\. You can set this in the Docker UI and by CLI.

      https://github.com/jenkinsci/docker/blob/master/README.md

  6. Unknown User (jcamilli)

    Here's a script to start Jenkins ... 


    #!/bin/bash

# Pull latest container
docker pull jenkins

# Setup local configuration folder
# Should already be in a jenkins folder when running this script.
export CONFIG_FOLDER=$PWD/config
mkdir $CONFIG_FOLDER
chown 1000 $CONFIG_FOLDER

# Start container
docker run --restart=always -d -p 49001:8080 \
-v $CONFIG_FOLDER:/var/jenkins_home:z \
# -e http_proxy='http://proxy.com:8080' \
# -e https_proxy='http://proxy.com:8080' \
--name jenkins -t jenkins

docker logs --follow jenkins