Jenkins Jobs Folder in Docker

[Bruce Coveny]

Hello,

I am building a custom docker image from jenkins/jenkins.  I would like to have the jobs, builds, and workspace folder be on an external volumne from from the container, but keep the rest of the configuration inside the container.

I have found where it is possible to set flags for builds and workspace, however, cannot find anything to externalize jobs folder.  Is this possible?

Thanks

Bruce

[Martin Schmude]

This is similar to the customized docker image that we build for Jenkins.
We just leave the $JENKINS_HOME/jobs folder intentionally inside the container. so that all job configurations are part of the docker image.

A Jenkins instance started from such an image has all its jobs available out-of-the-box.

There is in fact no option to tell Jenkins to use a different jobs folder other then $JENKINS_HOME/jobs.

As a workaround you could replace the $JENKINS_HOME/jobs folder by a link to e.g. /var/jenkins/jobs and let docker map a volume to /var/jenkins.