Jenkins slave with Alpine Linux for Docker

This image extends is based on alpine:3.11.

Example

The command below will start a slave named "test" that will try to connect to Jenkins located at http://jenkins:8080. You can change these settings by overriding variables listed below.

docker run -it --rm --name slave -e MASTER_URL=http://jenkins:8080 -e SLAVE_NAME=test -e SLAVE_SECRET=... thedrhax/jenkins-slave-alpine

Setting up master Jenkins

• Install the Swarm Plugin.
• Make sure that slave will be able to connect to HTTP and 50000/tcp ports of master.
• Create a permanent agent and write down the generated token.

Slave configuration variables

• -e MASTER_URL=http://jenkins:8080 — URL of Jenkins Master
• -e SLAVE_NAME=... — Name of the permanent agent (must be the same as specified in Jenkins);
• -e SLAVE_SECRET=... — Token assigned to this permanent agent by Jenkins
• -e SLAVE_ROOT=/data — Default working directory

Alpine configuration

• -e REQUIRED_PACKAGES="" — list of packages to be installed when container is started

Projects based on this image

• thedrhax/jenkins-slave-docker

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.