The Create image command fails on Jenkins prior to 1.553:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.getTempDirectoryPath()Ljava/lang/String;

This can easily be reproduced if you start Jenkins from the docker build step plugin sources with mvn hpi:run, then create and execute a job with a Create image build step.

docker-java relies on FileUtil.getTempDirectoryPath(), which was introduced in commons-io 2.0.
The first Jenkins version to ship with commons-io 2.4 is 1.553 (commit).

Resolution: any of

• upgrade core dependency to 1.553
• upgrade core dependency to 1.554.1
• document the minimum Jenkins version required to run the Create image command