Running Jfrog cli in different docker container and using that cli in the Gitlab CI/CD pipeline

Question

I'm running my CI/CD pipeline in Gitlab and I'm using the Jfrog cli to scan my code. The issue is that I'm downloading the cli every time that I'm running the CI/CD pipeline. I want to have that cli in a docker image that I can use every time that I need to run the pipeline in my Gitlab server. Any ideas?

Answer 1

As per installation instructions, you can run JFrog CLI in a docker image:

docker run docker.bintray.io/jfrog/jfrog-cli-go:latest jfrog -v

Or you can build your own Docker image with the JFrog CLI installed. Here a couple of links for that:

• https://www.scalyr.com/blog/create-docker-image/ (explains how to use docker commit which is how you can create an image from a running container)
• https://stackify.com/docker-build-a-beginners-guide-to-building-docker-images/
• https://docs.docker.com/get-started/part2/