How to run anything that requires privileged flag in my self-hosted runner? Trying to run litmus tes

kalib

I understand Bitbucket not allowing me to use the `--privileged` argument in the cloud for security reasons, but not even in my self-hosted runner? How am I supposed to run things that require that? Such as litmus puppet tests, for example?

 

I am trying to run:

 

docker run -d -it --privileged --volume /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro --tmpfs /tmp:exec -p 52243:22 --name docker-my-litmus-image-52243 my-litmus-service.services/litmusimage/debian:10

 Is the solution really to run docker in docker and spin up a container inside my runner container?

Theodora Boudale

Hi @kalib,

It is possible to use the privileged flag in a runner by using an external dind image instead of the default Atlassian docker service.

An example yml file with such a definition is the following:

image: centos:7

definitions:
  services:
    docker:
      image: docker:dind

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        runs-on:
          - 'self.hosted'
        script: 
          - echo "this is a runner step"
          - docker run -dt --privileged centos:7 ls
        services:
          - docker

Is this something that works for you?

Kind regards,
Theodora