Currently I need to use multiple docker containers which need to be linked together.
I tried using the --link option to set the linked image. In my use-case I don't want to set a fixed name but need to use a variable for the name.

In this case the args parameter is evaluated to "--link null:linkedimage" and the job fails.

Or is there another way to pass dynamic parameters (from variables) to the docker args?

pipeline {
    agent any
    environment {
        LINK_DOCKER_IMAGE = "linkedimage"
    }
    stages {
        stage ('Compose') {
            agent {
               docker {
                    image 'alpine'
                    args  "--link ${env.LINK_DOCKER_IMAGE}:linkedimage"
                }
            }
            steps {
                    sh 'printenv'
            }
        }
    }
}