Where does the jenkins shared library files get stored?

Question

The shared library files in jenkins are loaded at the beginning of the job, where does it get stored? I am trying to access the dockerfile stored in the shared library, I need the path to give in the docker build command. Is there a way I can find out the place where the shared library files are loaded in jenkins?

Answer 1

If the shared library is loaded from SCM and your workspace path is jenkins/workspaces/jobName, then a copy is checked out to jenkins/workspaces/jobName@libs or similar (might be suffixed with a number if that path is occupied by another concurrent build).

However, there is another way, if I understand you correctly you wan't to retrieve a resource in this library? In that case you should use the libraryResource and writeFile steps. Like this:

writeFile file:'myFile.txt', text:libraryResource("path/to/myFile.txt")