Running docker.withserver within docker.inside

[Johan Abelsson]

I want to connect to another docker daemon from within a docker container but it's not working from within jenkins.

The error I get is:

[restart_portal] Running shell script
Error response from daemon: No such container: 5a0fce9025ba1d047d8da9718ab830222d3fdc9f2a38773efd1e9d117f7e1e79

Is there a workaround for this?

Here is a simple example:

scripted:

docker.image('myimage').inside {

docker.withServer('tcp://10.11.11.109:2376', 'my-docker-creds'){

sh 'docker ps'

}

}

declarative:

pipeline {

        agent {

          dockerfile {

            filename "jenkinsfiles/restart_portal/Dockerfile.aws"

            label "restart"            

          }

  

    stages {

      stage('connect to docker host') {

        }

        steps {          

          script {

            docker.withServer('tcp://10.11.11.109:2376', 'my-docker-creds'){

              sh "docker ps"  

            }

            

          }

        }            

      }

    }

}