Installing Jenkins with Docker in new approach

Install Jenkins

• Running Jenkins as a Docker container
• Interacting with the Docker host from Jenkins

$ docker volume create jenkins

To identify docker group id

$ getent group docker

docker:x:998:vagrant

Run the container and to save the jenkins configuration into jenkins volume

$ docker run -v jenkins:/var/jenkins_home -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock --group-add 998 --name jenkins dockerhp/jenkins

$ docker run -v jenkins:/var/jenkins_home -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock --group-add 998 -d --name jenkins dockerhp/jenkins 

To figure out the ip address of jenkins

$ docker inspect -f '{{.NetworkSettings.Networks.bridge.IPAddress}}' jenkins

172.17.0.2

To view the secret password

$ docker exec jenkins cat /var/jenkins_home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Install plugin

Git plugin

Pipeline



Gitlab jenkins integration
https://webkul.com/blog/continuous-integration-jenkins-gitlab/