Access host devices (USB) from runner step

[#1]

Hi, we're considering to use Bitbucket Runners in order to perform hardware-in-the-loop CI testing. We noticed that the steps are run via Docker-in-Docker inside the runner container. So just starting the runner container as privileged with /dev/bus/usb mounted into it doesn't seem sufficient in order to access USB peripherals. Is there some way to access host (USB) peripherals from a pipeline step running on a self-hosted runner?

Best regards,
Sven

[James Szklarz]

Hi,

This is not currently possible as the dind containers within the runner container are not run with any device configurations.

We are planning on implementing this feature soon, allowing you to specify host devices against the runner steps in your pipelines yaml so you'll have access to them from your builds.

Regards,
James

[Charalampos Eleftheriadis]

Hi!

Are there any plans to support this functionallity in the near future?

Thanks!

[Jarek Piotrowiak]

How is it going with this feature? I could really use it.

[Charalampos Eleftheriadis]

Bump up! Any answers about this please?