December 2017
Beginner to intermediate
362 pages
8h 35m
English
Jenkins (through the Docker plugin) uses the Docker remote API to communicate with a Docker server. The Docker remote API allows external applications to communicate with the Docker server using REST APIs. Docker remote APIs can also be used to get information about all the running containers inside the Docker server.
To enable the Docker remote API, we need to modify Docker's configuration file. Depending on your OS version and the way you have installed Docker on your machine, you might need to choose the right configuration file to modify. Shown, as follows, are two methods that work on Ubuntu.
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