Using Jenkins to setup CI/CD for your docker build in 5 minutes

How to setup jenkins with docker-in-docker to build your docker based projects

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In this article, I’m going to describe how to use jenkins docker image to quickly setup a CI/CD pipeline for your small scale projects which are distributed as docker images. Follow this article if,

• Your project is distributed/built as docker image(s) — Has associated Dockerfiles
• Your project is small — small team / small code base like a pet project, startup
• You are in need of setting up CI/CD without a lot of complexity like setting up jenkins agents
• If setting up a jenkins cloud with docker or docker build agent is too much effort

Simply with this approach, you can get a CI/CD pipeline up and running for your project that is published as a docker image in 5 minutes.

TLDR;

Just run jenkins with docker installed in it using the following docker image. You need docker installed on your host machine.

docker run \
    --publish 8000:8080 \
    --publish 50000:50000 \
    --volume jenkins_home:/var/jenkins_home \…