Docker registry build plugin for Jenkins

If you want to build and push your Docker based project to the docker registry (including private repos), then you are in luck!

Features:

• Only a Dockerfile needed to build your project
• Publish to docker index/registry
• nocache option (for rebuild of all Dockerfile steps)
• publish option
• manage registry credentials for private and public repos
• tag the image built - use any Jenkins env. variables.

Dockerfile as build config

A Dockerfile is a convenient way to express build instructions.

As the Beatles sand, all you need is Dockerfile, and love. If you have a Dockerfile in the root of your project, then no further configuration is needed.

Usage

Set your credentials (username, email, password) in Manage Jenkins, then in any build add a build step using docker. The usual docker build caching mechanism applies - and you can choose to publish, or not, the resultant image.

(insert image here - with sample tag with BUILD_NUMBER)

(insert config screen)

Why use a Dockerfile

Defining your build as a Dockerfile means that it will run in a consistent linux environment, no matter where the build is run. You also end up with an image (in a repository, possibly pushed to a registry) that can then be deployed - the exact same image you built.

Dockerfiles can also help speed up builds. If there has been no change relative to a build instruction in the Dockerfile - then a cached version of that portion of the build can be used (this is a fundamental feature of docker)

Terminology

Docker has some confusing terminology - quick refresher:

• Repository - collection of docker images and tags. You "push" a repository to a registry, and when you build an image, it gets added to a repository. By default this is the "latest" version (tag)
• Registry - a place you push docker images/repos to
• Push - deploy a docker repo (presumably with a new image) to a remote registry
• Image - a docker image is what you build from a Dockerfile - it gets added to a repo