Use docker workflow for CD builds?

[jstrachan]

see this overview
http://developer-blog.cloudbees.com/2015/06/orchestrating-workflows-with-jenkins.html?m=1

Using docker images for things like maven installs sounds a great idea.

The docker workflow looks like an alternative to the Jenkins Job DSL and it can handle human approval steps & async pipelines nicely (and can handle Jenkins master restarts mid process)

[jstrachan]

I guess we could still use the jenkins dsl to generate the builds; its just our preferred default build would be defined by a flow.groovy using the workflow DSL?

Maybe we could have a library of flow.groovy files to pick between?

[jstrachan]

using Docker Workflow and Kubernetes Jenkins Plugin together is quite challenging so I've spun up an idea of how we could make those things work nicer on kubernetes here: #4340