Docker Quick Start Guide

Testing our new build agents

Head back to the Jenkins dashboard and click on the Schedule a Build button for our hello-docker-test job. This will start a new build for our job, which in turn will create a new Dockerized build agent. It uses the configuration we set to execute a docker container run command to run a new container based on the image we specified. Initially, the executor will be offline as the container spins up:

Notice that the executor name has the agent prefix that we specified. Once the container is running, the Jenkins job will be initiated within it, essentially using the docker container exec command. When the Jenkins ...