Jenkins Docker 0.9beta plugin. How to stop Jenkins Slave from Cloning the Git repos each time- How to re-use workspace?

[krishna kunapuli]

Hi,

 I was able to setup Jenkins running in a docker container and configure plug-in to kick off builds on slaves. How ever, each time a job is run jenkins slave container is trying to clone the entire git repository, downloading all the artifacts for the project. In my case it take 15minutes. This is least efficient. How do I re-use a slave workspace?

Thanks,

K

[Nigel Magnay]

Build a slave image with a copy of the git repository and any known artifacts within it. Then the build will only be fetching the diffs.

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[Mark Waite]

Another alternative is to build a slave image with a bare copy of the git repository, then use that bare copy as a reference repository in the job definition (see the "Additional Behaviours" section of the git section of the job configuration).  The reference repository reduces the data transfer by pointing to the bare repo and only pulling new changes.

Mark Waite

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[krishna kunapuli]

I took a ssh ready slave image and sudo-ed to the container as jenkins, ran git clone,  ran a basic build and committed to docker. When I run a docker container from this new image. I could see the files in there. I don't see expected result of just git update when I use this new image as my slave. 

Additional note, I inspected the dynamic containers created by jenkins and don't see source directory. I don't understand what I am missing.