Bitbucket Pipelines: Unable to checkout git submodules with local macOS pipeline runner

[Patrick Steiner]

Hi,

I have simple pipeline config where I have to checkout git submodules via an other git repository (which is also hosted on bitbucket cloud)

First it tried to just call:

- git submodule update --init --recursive

But the pipeline always got stuck (without any error)

So I tried to setup my ssh settings as described here:

https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/set-up-runners-for-macos/

This ends in the same problem, pipeline got stuck.

So I tried to setup my ssh settings as described here:

https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/set-up-pipelines-ssh-keys-on-macos/

This ends in the same problem, pipeline got stuck.

I don't know which documentation is newer? And is it still required to setup a custom ssh key to fetch git submodules from a git repository (which is hosted on bitbucket cloud)

I have also added the public key to the access keys on the git repository.

Is there any way to get this running on a macOS pipeline runner?

[Patrick Steiner · Accepted solution]

I figured it out myself, the problem is that the macOS pipeline runner downloads the ssh keys which are created via Pipelines -> SSH Keys but ignores the known hosts which are created there. So I had to create a known_hosts file in my ~/.ssh directory.