Docker Registry Artifact plugin

The docker registry artifact plugin provides a way to push and pull docker images on GoCD

Building the code base

To build the jar, run ./gradlew clean test assemble

Getting started

Requirements

• GoCD Server 18.7+
• Docker registry
• Docker daemon

Installation

Build the plugin with ./gradlew clean test assemble

Copy the file build/libs/docker-registry-artifact-plugin-VERSION.jar to the GoCD server under ${GO_SERVER_DIR}/plugins/external and restart the server. The GO_SERVER_DIR is usually /var/lib/go-server on Linux and C:\Program Files\Go Server on Windows.

Configuration

There are three levels of configuration needed in order for publishing and fetching a docker image as an artifact.

Configure the Artifact Store

1. Login to GoCD server as admin and navigate to Admin > Artifact Stores

2. Click on Add to add the store details for the plugin.

   • Specify the store id
   • Choose the docker registry artifact plugin
   • Specify the Docker Registry Url
   • Specify the Registry Type
   • Specify registry details

   If Registry Type is ecr:

   

   If Registry Type is other:

   

Artifact Store Properties

If RegistryType is ecr:

Note: If the AWSAccessKeyId and AWSSecretAccessKey are not provided, the following configurations are checked:

• Environment Variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• System Properties aws.accessKeyId and aws.secretKey
• Credential profiles file at the default location (~/.aws/credentials)
• Credentials delivered through the Amazon EC2 container service if AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_RELATIVE_URI" environment variable is set and security manager has permission to access the variable
• Instance profile credentials delivered through the Amazon EC2 metadata service

If RegistryType is other

Publish artifact config

1. Navigate to the Artifacts tab under Stage > Job

2. Choose artifact type External

   • Specify the artifact id.
   • Specify the store id of an existing artifact store

3. Configure the build specific artifact details.

   • Optionally specify the Image and Tag. Usually, the Tag can be an environment variable that changes for every build. For example, the GO_PIPELINE_LABEL can be used to publish a versioned docker image.
   • Optionally specify the BuildFile. Specify a json file name. The format of the file should be {"image": "name", "tag": "tag pattern"}. The BuildFile option can be used if the Tag option cannot be specified for the tag pattern you want to use. The generation of this json file must be handled within the GoCD job.
   • A private registry has to be part of the image name, like RegistryURL/Image.

   

Configure the Image in Publish Artifact Config:

Although the artifact store contains the registry url or the registry ID (in case of ECR), the image that needs to be published to the registry still needs to be tagged appropriately with the registry information. Otherwise, the docker client will be unable to push the image to the registry.

Specify the image as shown in the examples below for various container registries:

• DockerHub: <DOCKERHUB_USERNAME>/image

• Quay: quay.io/<username>/image

• GCR: gcr.io/<username>/image

• ECR: <registry_id>.dkr.ecr.<aws_region>.amazonaws.com/image

Fetch artifact config

To pull an image from an upstream pipeline or stage, the following information is required:

1. Specify a Pipeline Dependency material if you have an upstream pipeline you want to pull the docker image.

2. Navigate to Tasks tab under Stage > Job

3. Add a Fetch Artifact task

   • Choose artifact origin type External
   • Specify the pipeline, stage and job name.
   • Specify the artifact id of the external artifact that belongs to the upstream job

   

Troubleshooting

Enable Debug Logs

If you are on GoCD version 19.6 and above:

Edit the file wrapper-properties.conf on your GoCD server and add the following options. The location of the wrapper-properties.conf can be found in the installation documentation of the GoCD server.

# We recommend that you begin with the index `100` and increment the index for each system property
wrapper.java.additional.100=-Dplugin.cd.go.artifact.docker.registry.log.level=debug

If you're running with GoCD server 19.6 and above on docker using one of the supported GoCD server images, set the environment variable GOCD_SERVER_JVM_OPTIONS:

docker run -e "GOCD_SERVER_JVM_OPTIONS=-Dplugin.cd.go.artifact.docker.registry.log.level=debug" ...

If you are on GoCD version 19.5 and lower:

• On Linux:

  Enabling debug level logging can help you troubleshoot an issue with this plugin. To enable debug level logs, edit the file /etc/default/go-server (for Linux) to add:

  export GO_SERVER_SYSTEM_PROPERTIES="$GO_SERVER_SYSTEM_PROPERTIES -Dplugin.cd.go.artifact.docker.registry.log.level=debug"

  If you're running the server via ./server.sh script:

  $ GO_SERVER_SYSTEM_PROPERTIES="-Dplugin.cd.go.artifact.docker.registry.log.level=debug" ./server.sh

• On windows:

  Edit the file config/wrapper-properties.conf inside the GoCD Server installation directory (typically C:\Program Files\Go Server):

  # config/wrapper-properties.conf
  # since the last "wrapper.java.additional" index is 15, we use the next available index.
  wrapper.java.additional.16=-Dplugin.cd.go.artifact.docker.registry.log.level=debug
  

License

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