How-To Backup and Restore Your Jenkins Data Volume in Docker

Refer to the instructions on this page, you can normally use command docker commit to create your own image from your container and even publish it to Docker Hub so everyone else can reuse your image.

However, Jenkins images declares the jenkins home directory (/var/jenkins_home) as a volume (See reference) so you cannot use the command docker commit to create the image as your changes made to Jenkins won't go with the image. You have to make a backup of your data volume instead (refer instructions on this page).

Here are the instructions to backup your Jenkins data from your Jenkins container (recently created from this blog), and how-to restore it:

Test Drive Jenkins using Docker - Part III

...Continued from Part II

Instructions Summary

1. Part I: Install Docker
2. Part I: Clone repository from GitHub
3. Part I: Download and start up Jenkins 
4. Part II: Add new project "PULLCODE" to connect to GitHub repository
5. Part II: Add new project "BUILD" to build project with Maven
6. Part II: Run MariaDB and test BUILD
7. Part III: Install and create Build Pipeline
8. Part III: Install JaCoCo to check for test coverage
9. Part III: Install Build Monitor View and schedule run interval

Test Drive Jenkins using Docker - Part II

...Continued from Part I

Instructions Summary

1. Part I: Install Docker
2. Part I: Clone repository from GitHub
3. Part I: Download and start up Jenkins 
4. Part II: Add new project "PULLCODE" to connect to GitHub repository
5. Part II: Add new project "BUILD" to build project with Maven
6. Part II: Run MariaDB and test BUILD
7. Part III: Install and create Build Pipeline
8. Part III: Install JaCoCo to check for test coverage
9. Part III: Install Build Monitor View and schedule run interval

Test Drive Jenkins using Docker - Part I

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Jenkins is now popular these days as a continuous integration and continuous delivery tool to automate software development process to achieve DevOps objectives. I have a chance to see a demo during the Test-Driven Development training last week at IMC Institue by K.Somkiat Puisungnoen (www.somkiat.cc)

Here I have listed instructions I tried on Windows 10 that you can follow if you are new to Jenkins and want to see what it can do. Thank you very much to Nont who spent an hour to help me setting Jenkins up.

PS: I'm not the expert but just tried this out for the first time so your comments and suggestions will be very appreciated.

Instructions Summary

1. Part I: Install Docker
2. Part I: Clone repository from GitHub
3. Part I: Download and start up Jenkins 
4. Part II: Add new project "PULLCODE" to connect to GitHub repository
5. Part II: Add new project "BUILD" to build project with Maven
6. Part II: Run MariaDB and test BUILD
7. Part III: Install and create Build Pipeline
8. Part III: Install JaCoCo to check for test coverage
9. Part III: Install Build Monitor View and schedule run interval