How to install gradle plugin in jenkins

Installation

In order to install Jenkins on your host machine, follow the instructions listed in Installing Jenkins page.

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Second and easier way to start with experiencing Jenkins is running it on docker:

Mostly, docker daemon is needed to be used in the pipelines for building, running, publishing docker images. If you install the Jenkins on the host machine, follow the instructions in Installing Docker page to get docker up and running as well.

However if you are running the Jenkins on docker, then we can mount the docker socket running on host machine to Jenkins running on docker, so that container will use the docker daemon of the host machine. [1]

Within the Jenkins container we still need to install the docker binaries so that container can talk to mounted docker daemon.

So open a shell for jenkins container:

Install docker:

Add user to docker group and update the ownership of file docker.sock, otherwise docker command will get permission denied for jenkins user.

Configuration

Now we can access the Jenkins user interface

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