npm install fails in jenkins pipeline in docker

Question

I\'m following a tutorial about Jenkins pipeline and I can get a \"hello world\" working under at node 6.10 docker container.

But, when I added a default EmberJS app

Answer 1

from https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/blob/master/Jenkinsfile

docker.image('openjdk:8').inside {
    /* One Weird Trick(tm) to allow git(1) to clone inside of a
    * container
    */
    withEnv([
        /* Override the npm cache directory to avoid: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/.npm' */
        'npm_config_cache=npm-cache',
        /* set home to our current directory because other bower
        * nonsense breaks with HOME=/, e.g.:
        * EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/.config'
        */
        'HOME=.',
    ]) {
            // your code
    }
}

Answer 2

I add the same issue. I solved it using the root user to run the Docker image:

node {
    stage("Prepare environment") {
        checkout scm
        // Build the Docker image from the Dockerfile located at the root of the project
        docker.build("${JOB_NAME}")
    }

    stage("Install dependencies") {
        // Run the container as `root` user
        // Note: you can run any official Docker image here
        withDockerContainer(args: "-u root", image: "${JOB_NAME}") {
            sh "npm install"
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

In my case this solved the problem

            agent {
                docker {
                    image 'node:10-stretch'
                    args '-v /home/jenkins/.ssh:/home/jenkins/.ssh:ro -u 0'
                }
            }

Answer 4

In my case the problem was that inside the container I was user jenkins instead of root. I got there by setting whoami inside the container and got error like cannot determine user 111 (which happens to be jenkins). So I did the following:

stage('Run build') {
        webappImage.inside("-u root") {
            sh "yarn run build"
        }
    }

Answer 5

Adding the environments and setting the Home to '.' solves this as below.

pipeline {
    agent { docker { image 'node:8.12.0' } }
    environment {
        HOME = '.'
    }
    stages {
        stage('Clone') {
            steps {
                git branch: 'master',
                    credentialsId: '121231k3jkj2kjkjk',
                    url: 'https://myserver.com/my-repo.git'
            }
        }
        stage('Build') {
            steps {
                sh "npm install"
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 6

You can install nvm on the fly before building, in a local directory with NVM_DIR without setting it as global dependency :

mkdir -p node_dir
export NVM_DIR=$(pwd)/node_dir
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.1/install.sh | bash
source $(pwd)/node_dir/nvm.sh
nvm install 7
nvm use 7

The new locations are :

$ which node
~/someDir/node_dir/versions/node/v7.7.2/bin/node

$ which npm
~/someDir/node_dir/versions/node/v7.7.2/bin/npm