Jenkins has come a long way, in the past few years. You can now run it as a docker image:
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 -p 50000:50000 -v jenkins_home:/var/jenkins_home --name jenkins jenkins/jenkins:lts-jdk11
Or bake your own image, to pre-install plugins:
FROM jenkins/jenkins:lts-jdk11
COPY --chown=jenkins:jenkins plugins.txt /usr/share/jenkins/ref/plugins.txt
RUN jenkins-plugin-cli -f /usr/share/jenkins/ref/plugins.txt
providing a list of plugins
antisamy-markup-formatter:latest
build-discarder:latest
configuration-as-code:latest
copyartifact:latest
credentials-binding:latest
envinject:latest
ghprb:latest
git:latest
github:latest
job-dsl:latest
matrix-auth:latest
nodejs:latest
timestamper:latest
workflow-aggregator:latest
ws-cleanup:latest
and now you can even configure those plugins using CasC:
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 -p 50000:50000 -v jenkins_home:/var/jenkins_home -e CASC_JENKINS_CONFIG=/var/jenkins_home/casc_configs -v $PWD/casc_configs:/var/jenkins_home/casc_configs --name jenkins my-jenkins
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! 