Pipeline as Code

9 Building Docker images within a CI pipeline

This chapter covers

• Building Docker images inside Jenkins pipelines and best practices of writing Dockerfiles
• Using Docker agents as an execution environment in Jenkins declarative pipelines
• Integrating Jenkins build statuses into GitHub pull requests
• Deploying and configuring hosted and managed Docker private registry solutions
• Docker images life cycle within the development cycle and tagging strategies
• Scanning Docker images for security vulnerabilities within Jenkins pipelines

In the previous chapter, you learned how to run automated tests inside Docker containers within CI pipelines. In this chapter, we will finish the CI workflow by building a Docker image and storing it inside a private ...