[JENKINS-50857] Docker agent on windows fails with Cannot run program "id"

I'm trying to use a docker agent on windows in declarative pipeline. I can see the image is pulled but then fails as below

[ply-widgets-project-pipelin-GORWBIPVPM5EWBJECA7BVJBSR5OVNCYISONJIELJYMXAG4YTMWPQ] Running shell script

sh: sleep: command not found

sh: sleep: command not found

sh: sleep: command not found

sh: sleep: command not found

sh: sleep: command not found

+ docker inspect -f . 1234567.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/builds/jenkins-agent-node:windows-npm-5.8.0

.

Cannot run program "id": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified

 

I'm using the following in my jenkinsfile for a stage

agent {

    docker { 

image '1234567.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/builds/jenkins-agent-node:windows-npm-5.8.0' 

label 'windows&&docker' 

    }

}

While I don't think it matters in this case my registry is actually AWS ECR and the agent is a windows server 2016, in a previous stage the following is run to login to ECR

powershell 'Get-ECRLoginCommand -region us-west-2 | select -ExpandProperty command | Invoke-Expression'

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Originally reported by jonathank, imported from: Docker agent on windows fails with Cannot run program "id"

• status: Open
  
• priority: Critical
  
• component(s): docker-workflow-plugin
  
• label(s): declarative, docker, pipeline
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 3
  
• watchers: 5
  
• imported: 2025-12-07
  

Raw content of original issue

I'm trying to use a docker agent on windows in declarative pipeline. I can see the image is pulled but then fails as below



[ply-widgets-project-pipelin-GORWBIPVPM5EWBJECA7BVJBSR5OVNCYISONJIELJYMXAG4YTMWPQ] Running shell script

sh: sleep: command not found

sh: sleep: command not found

sh: sleep: command not found

sh: sleep: command not found

sh: sleep: command not found

+ docker inspect -f . 1234567.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/builds/jenkins-agent-node:windows-npm-5.8.0

.

Cannot run program "id": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified





 


I'm using the following in my jenkinsfile for a stage



agent {

    docker { 

        image '1234567.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/builds/jenkins-agent-node:windows-npm-5.8.0' 

        label 'windows&&docker' 

    }

}





While I don't think it matters in this case my registry is actually AWS ECR and the agent is a windows server 2016, in a previous stage the following is run to login to ECR



powershell 'Get-ECRLoginCommand -region us-west-2 | select -ExpandProperty command | Invoke-Expression'

environment

```
Windows Server Core 2016

Jenkins 2.89.4

Pipeline: Declarative 1.2.8
```