Close docker containers when Jenkins pipeline is killed

[Kubuxu]

Acceptance Criteria

• Starting a job that runs a long-lived docker container should kill the container if the job is cancelled

Tasks

• Implement a way for killing all related docker containers when job is cancelled

Notes

Original post from @Kubuxu

It will proceed to run in backround and keep using resources.

[victorb]

Hm, interesting. So "Pipeline is killed" is when you forcefully stops the job or is there an error happening?

[Kubuxu]

When you stop a job via the UI. I think some combination of -t and -i flags is in play here.

[victorb]

Ah, ok, I understand. So when you stop a pipeline, the docker container continuous to run, when it should be stopped together with the pipeline. Probably there is some hook in the Jenkinsfile we can use, on-end or something like that, where we can forcefully kill the containers involved in the pipeline.

[Kubuxu]

Yeah, something like that. There is docker workflow plugin which might help.

[Kubuxu]

Resolved by the docker workflow plugin. If you want to take a look how it works with more complex pipeline see go-ipfs Jenkinsfile.