How to build Docker Images with Dockerfile behind HTTP_PROXY by Jenkins?

Note: Docker 1.9 might help solve this:

• "Issue 14634": Builder - Build-time argument passing (e.g., HTTP_PROXY)
• "PR 15182": Support for passing build-time variables in build context

Usage (proposed):

docker build --build-arg http_proxy=http://my.proxy.url  --build-arg foo=bar <<MARK
FROM busybox
RUN <command that need http_proxy>
ARG --description="foo's description" foo
USER $foo
MARK

Docker has multiple ways to set proxies that take effect at different times.

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If your docker build has to retrieve a base image through a proxy, you'll want to specify build-args:

docker build --build-arg HTTP_PROXY=$http_proxy \
--build-arg HTTPS_PROXY=$http_proxy --build-arg NO_PROXY="$no_proxy" \
--build-arg http_proxy=$http_proxy --build-arg https_proxy=$http_proxy \
--build-arg no_proxy="$no_proxy" -t myContainer /path/to/Dockerfile/directory

where $http_proxy and $no_proxy were set in my bashrc. I used both HTTP_PROXY and http_proxy because different utilities will check different variables (curl checks both, wget only checks the lowercase ones, etc).

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If your docker build has a RUN curl/wget/etc command that has to go through the proxy, you'll need to specify an environment variable inside your docker image:

ENV https_proxy=http://proxy-us02.company.com:8080
ENV http_proxy=http://proxy-us02.company.com:8080
ENV HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy-us02.company.com:8080
ENV HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxy-us02.company.com:8080
ENV no_proxy="localhost,localdomain,127.0.0.1,etc"
ENV NO_PROXY="localhost,localdomain,127.0.0.1,etc"

If you don't want this environment variable inside your image at runtime, you can remove all these at the end:

RUN unset http_proxy https_proxy no_proxy HTTP_PROXY HTTPS_PROXY NO_PROXY