Installing JENKINS through Docker File For Windows Container

In this blog, we will show you installing JENKINS through docker file for Windows container onWindowss 2016.

REQUIREMENTS

• Windows Container Host
• JENKINS setup file

DOWNLOAD JENKINS

• Go to the URL https://jenkins.io/download/

• Scroll down and click on the Windows link

• It prompts us to download the zip file.

• Once the download is complete and extracts the MSI from the ZIP file.

PREPARING BUILD ENVIRONMENT

• Create a folder named Jenkins in C:\ drive using below command

New-Item -Type Directory -Name jenkins -Path c:\

• Create one more folder name source inside C:\jenkins folder.

New-Item -Type Directory -Name setup -path C:\jenkins\

• Create a filename dockerfile inside c:\jenkins folder.

New-Item -Type File -Name dockerfile -Path C:\jenkins\

• Copy the downloaded jenkins setup file to c:\jenkins\setup folder.

• Open the dockerfile in the notepad and add the below code and save it.

#THIS DOCKER FILE IS DEVELOPED BY ASSISTANZ NETWORKS

#SPECIFY THE CONTAINER IMAGE
FROM microsoft/windowsservercore

#COPY THE JENKINS INSTALLATION FILES INTO THE CONTAINER
ADD ./setup c:/jenkins

#INSTALLING IIS
RUN Powershell.exe -Command Install-WindowsFeature Web-Server

#INSTALLING JENKINS
RUN [“msiexec.exe”, “/i”, “C:\\jenkins\\jenkins.msi”, “/qn”]

#REMOVING SETUP FILES FROM CONTAINER
RUN Powershell.exe -Command remove-item c:/jenkins –Recurse

BUILDING THE IMAGE

• Go-to PowerShell and execute the below command to build the jenkins image.

docker build -t jenkins c:\jenkins

• It will take several minutes to complete the build.

CONFIGURE JENKINS

• Launch a new container using the Jenkins image which we built earlier.

docker run -it jenkins powershell

• Once the container is created, type ipconfig to find the IP address.

• Browse the IP along with port 8080 from your container host. It prompts for the initial administrator password to configure Jenkins.

• Type the below command to view the administrator password from the initialadminpassword file.

type ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\secrets\initialAdminPassword’

• Copy & paste the password and click continue.

• In the next screen, select the plugins to be installed for your environment. For this demo, we have installed all the suggested plugins for Jenkins.

• It will take few minutes to complete the installation.

• In next screen, it prompts for to create a new admin user. Provide the details and click save and finish.

• The final screen shows that Jenkins is ready. Click on Start using Jenkins button.

• Now jenkins is available for our environment.

• You can download the pre-built image from the Docker Hub URL

https://hub.docker.com/r/assistanz247/jenkins-windows/

• Also, you can download the dockerfile from GitHub URL.

https://github.com/assistanz247/JENKINS

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