Starting Jenkins in Docker Container

The official Jenkins Docker image documentation says regarding volumes:

docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 50000:50000 -v /your/home:/var/jenkins_home jenkins

This will store the jenkins data in /your/home on the host. Ensure that /your/home is accessible by the jenkins user in container (jenkins user - uid 1000) or use -u some_other_user parameter with docker run.

This information is also found in the Dockerfile. So all you need to do is to ensure that the directory $PWD/jenkins is own by UID 1000:

mkdir jenkins
chown 1000 jenkins
docker run -d -p 49001:8080 -v $PWD/jenkins:/var/jenkins_home -t jenkins