Jenkins with Docker

Goal of this Repo

At the end you will get a v2.489 Jenkins instance and a Docker Dind that together gives you the ability to create new containers to be used as agents in your CI/CD pipeline flow.

Also, there is a optional step at the end to get Metrics stack.

Plugins

These are automatically configure installed during build phase: plugins/README.md

Building with Docker Compose

Use the following commands to build and get all services up and running.

Clone the repo and unzip the file

wget -O jenkins-docker.zip https://github.com/aacoliveira/jenkins-docker/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
unzip jenkins-docker.zip
cd jenkins-docker-main/

Build

Download all images:

docker compose pull

Build the Jenkins image:

docker compose build

Start services

The -d flag can be used on the following command to run in detached mode and free your terminal.

Just Run:

docker compose up

Validation

To see if went well:

docker container ls

There must be exactly two containers named jenkins and dind.

Initial Password

Exec the following command:

docker container exec -it jenkins cat /var/jenkins_home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Login

⚠️ Create new users and password after initial login

Tool	Location	Credentials
Jenkins UI	http://localhost:8080	admin / initial password obtained earlier

Optional - Metrics

See metrics/README.md to more instructions.