run jenkins pipeline agent with sudo

Question

I have an Jenkins Server running in an docker container and have access to docker an the host system, so far it is working well. Now I want to set up a pipeline testing an s

Answer 1

Same issue here where.

[...]
agent { docker 'whatever_I_try_doesnt_work'} # sudo, jenkins user in dockerroot group etc
[...]

So my workaround is to add it as one of the steps in the the build stage of the pipeline as follow:

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('Build') {
            steps {
                sh 'sudo docker pull python:3.5.1'
            }
        }
    }
}