Docker Quick Start Guide

Building, testing, and pushing Docker images inside Dockerized build nodes

To wrap up this chapter on Docker and Jenkins, let's walk through the steps of creating a template for a real-world Dockerized node application. The following is what we will do:

Prepare our application:

• Create a new repo on GitHub
• Clone the repo to our development workstation
• Create our application files
• Push our application files up to GitHub

Create and test the Jenkins job that will build our Dockerized node application:

• Create a new Jenkins job that utilizes the GitHub repo
• Test our Jenkins job that will pull the repo, build the app, test it, and publish the image
• Celebrate our success!

Let's begin by preparing our application.

The first thing we want to ...