I know I'm going to need to install/setup the following to get my Dockerized application working within Jenkins:

1. The aws command line tool, to grab files from S3 (needed in my build for staging/production .env files)
2. An instance of Docker private registry, which the build script uploads to after building a production Docker image

1. AWS command line tool

My AWS server already has permission to talk to the relevant S3 bucket through the magic of server profiles within AWS. All I need to do is install the aws command line tool that my build script uses.

sudo apt-get install -y python python-pip
sudo pip install -U pip virtualenv

sudo su jenkins
cd ~/
virtualenv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

pip install awscli

And that's it!

2. Docker Registry

I also create a Docker Private Registry instance to run within Docker on the Jenkins server. In the ? Shipping Docker series, I go into more detail on this, including setting it up to be backed by an S3 bucket so we don't lose our images if this container crashes.

# Start a container running Registry
sudo docker run -d -p 5000:5000 --name registry --restart unless-stopped registry:2

# Test it out:
curl localhost:5000/v2/_catalog

Then I just have Blue Ocean re-run the last job, and we can see that our jobs finish fully using the project's Jenkinsfile.

3. Webhooks

A webhook should be going to our Jenkins server automatically, however Blue Ocean didn't set one up for me. In the video, we see how to set up a Github webhook to go to our Jenkins installation whenever we push to a repository. This is an organization webhook, not specific to any one project within it.

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If you're interested in learning more about Docker and how I use Jenkins with a Docker workflow, check out the ? Shipping Docker series!