Pipelines: gcloud datastore emulator as background process?

[Veronika Priesner]

Hi all!

I would like to establish a Bitbucket Pipelines step that runs integration tests against an emulated database (Google Datastore).

This is the emulator, which can be started via the Google Cloud SDK:

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/beta/emulators/datastore/start

Once the emulator is running, starting the tests should be as easy as calling

mvn verify -Pintegrationtestprofile 

I found an image where both maven and gcloud come preinstalled.

The question is: how can I start the emulator as a background process so that I can start the maven execution in the main thread? I haven't been able to set up the emulator as a pipeline service (it requires an init and a start command).

[Caroline R]

Hi, @Veronika Priesner,

I saw that you created a ticket with our support related to the same question, so to avoid any possible misunderstandings or miscommunication that may arise from discussing the same matter on two different platforms, let’s focus on the ticket instead.

Once the ticket is resolved, feel free to share the resolution here to help other community members that may have the same question.

Kind regards,
Caroline