Jenkins wrong volume permissions

Question

I have a virtual machine hosting Oracle Linux where I\'ve installed Docker and created containers using a docker-compose file. I placed the jenkins volume under a shared fol

Answer 1

The problem is, that your user in the container has different userid:groupid as the user on the host.

you have two possibilities:

1. You can ensure that the user in the container has the same userid:groupid like the user on the host, which has access to the mounted volume. For this you have to adjust the user in the Dockerfile. Create a user in the dockerfile with the same userid:groupid and then switch to this user https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#user

2. You can ensure that the user on the host has the same userid:groupid like the user in the container. For this, enter the container with docker exec -it <container-name> bash and show the user id id -u <username> group id id -G <username>. Change the permissions of the mounted volume to this userid:groupid.

Answer 2

As haschibaschi stated your user in the container has different userid:groupid than the user on the host.

To get around this is to start the container without the (problematic) volume mapping, then run bash on the container:

docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 50000:50000 -it jenkins bin/bash

Once inside the container's shell run the id command and you'll get results like:

uid=1000(jenkins) gid=1000(jenkins) groups=1000(jenkins)

Exit the container, go to the folder you are trying to map and run:

chown -R 1000:1000 .

With the permissions now matching, you should be able to run the original docker command with the volume mapping.