Chapter 29. Docker Pipeline Plugin

Introduction

Running build steps inside containers

Customizing slave allocation

Building and publishing images

Running and testing containers

Specifying a custom registry and server

Advanced usage

Demonstrations

Many organizations are using Docker to unify their build and test environments across machines and provide an efficient way to deploy applications into production. This plugin offers a convenient domain-specific language (DSL) for performing some of the most commonly needed Docker operations in a continuous-deployment pipeline from a Pipeline script.

The entry point for all of this plugin’s functionality is a docker global variable, available without import to any flow script when the plugin is enabled. To get detailed information on available methods, open the Snippet Generator when configuring your flow and look at the help text for this variable: