Podman and Bitbucket self-hosted runner

[Felix Schendel]

Hi, is it possible to use bitbucket self-hosted runners using podman? Thanks

[Theodora Boudale · Accepted solution]

Hi Felix,

We offer two different types of Runners for Linux:

• Linux Docker Runners
• Linux Shell Runners

The Docker ones require Docker to run, however, the Shell ones do not, and they use Bash to run the pipelines steps on your machine.

I am not familiar with Podman, but if it's a tool you can use from Bash, you can look into our Linux Shell Runners.

Kind regards,
Theodora

[Felix Schendel]

perfect, we'll try with the shell runners

[Tony Jackson]

Did you have any luck with this @Felix Schendel ?  Looking to do the same.

[Felix Schendel]

Yes, we went with the shell runners. They have some limitations (mentioned in the link) but those were fine for us.

[Felix Schendel]

In our case we can't install docker on the host so if podman is not supported it makes no sense to use pipelines unfortunately.

To further describe the issue: it seems docker image "docker-public.packages.atlassian.com/sox/atlassian/bitbucket-pipelines-runner" relies on the docker daemon. We tried to mount the podman socket instead of the docker one but it was still complaining with sth like:

connect(..) failed: Connection refused: /var/run/docker.sock

Any ideas welcome! Hope someone has successfully used self-hosted runners using podman.