How to use pip in bitbucket pipelines?

[Robin Beier]

Hi,

i want to use pip in my bitbucket pipeline to install fabric and deploy my php application.  According to this article it is possible to cache pip as a dependency. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Here is my pipelines.yml file:

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        name: Deploy to production
        deployment: production
        caches:
          - pip
        script:
          - pip -v

Following error gets thrown on the deploy: 

+ pip -v
bash: pip: command not found

Thank you very much for your help!

[jredmond · Accepted solution]

What base image are you using? You may need to specify one that already has pip (and whatever other Python utilities you might need) installed.

[Robin Beier]

i have no image specified, i think it's the default-image from bitbucket.

Could you tell me how to find such an image? Maybe it's possible to create an own image?

[jredmond]

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/use-docker-images-as-build-environments-792298897.html has documentation on this.