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Ambidex
Ambidex

Reputation: 857

Jenkins: Reuse Docker container

I’ve got a lot of multibranch pipeline projects that use a same kind of Docker container. Is it possible to reuse that Docker container over multiple jobs? I want to do this to preserve storage space.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1477

Answers (1)

yamenk
yamenk

Reputation: 51768

This is not recommended, as you might get some unexpected side-effects from previous runs.

If you want to save space, make sure to clean up the containers once they exist using either --rm option which removes the container once existing:

agent {
        docker {
            image ...
            args '--rm'
        }
    }

or by running docker system prune --volumes -f which will do a clean up of unused docker images and containers and volumes.

Upvotes: 1

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