Friday, August 12, 2022

How to setup Docker Containers as Build Agents | Setup dynamic Docker Slave and Integrate with Jenkins Master | Jenkins Build Agent Setup using Docker

Jenkins has powerful feature of master slave architecture which enables distributed builds. This article we will learn how to setup slave nodes using Docker and integrate with Jenkins Master.


Advantages of using Docker Containers as Jenkins Build Agents
  • Ephemeral 
  • Better resource utilization
  • Customized agents as it can run different builds like Java 8, Java 11 
  • Scalability 
Let us see how to configure slave nodes dynamically using Docker. If you like to learn how to setup Jenkins Master on Ubuntu EC2 instance, click here.

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Pre-requisites:

Step 1 - Configure Docker Host with Remote API

Login to Docker host machine. Open docker service file. Search for ExecStart and replace that line with the following.
sudo vi /lib/systemd/system/docker.service

You can replace with below line:
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -H tcp://0.0.0.0:4243 -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock

Restart Docker service
   sudo systemctl daemon-reload
   sudo service docker restart

Validate API by executing below curl command
curl http://localhost:4243/version

Step 2 - Build Jenkins slave Docker image

Download Dockerfile from below repo.
git clone https://github.com/akannan1087/jenkins-docker-slave; cd jenkins-docker-slave

Build Docker image

sudo docker build -t my-jenkins-slave .

Perform below command to see the list of docker images:

sudo docker images

Step 3 - Configure Jenkins Server with Docker plug-in

Now login to Jenkins Master. Make sure you install Docker plug-in in Jenkins.


Now go to Manage Jenkins -> Configure Nodes Cloud


Click on Docker Cloud Details
Enter docker host dns name or ip address
tcp://docker_host_dns:4243
Make sure Enabled is selected
Now click on Test Connection to make sure connecting with docker host is working. 



Step 4 - Configure Docker Agent Templates

Now click on Docker Agent templates:
Enter label as "docker-slave" and give some name
Click on Enabled
Now enter the name of the docker image you have built previously in docker host.
enter /home/jenkins as Remote file system root
 

Choose Connect with SSH as connection method:
Enter SSH credentials per your Dockerfile - jenkins/password


choose Never Pull as pull strategy as we have already image stored in DockerHost.
Click on Save.

Step 5 - Create build job in Jenkins

Now Create a pipeline job in Jenkins with below pipeline code:

pipeline {
    agent { 
        label "docker-slave"
     }
    stages {
        stage('Hello') {
            steps {
                echo 'Hello World'
            }
        }
    }
}

Click Apply and Save. 
Now build the job. Now you will see output like below:



Create a free style job

Choose Restrict where this project can be run and enter docker-slave as label


1 comment:

  1. Hi bro,
    where to check the run time agent containers in EC2 instance,
    i have tried using docker container ps command but no containers are in running state.
    can u pls reply

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