I am trying to build a CICD workflow on Github Actions to preload a base image. Most balena cli commands run flawlessly, but I am struggling with the balena preload command. It builds and then spins up a docker container to run the preloading. In order to build it correctly the .img file that we w…

Hello, are you able to get the output of /proc/filesystems from the builder(s) you are running this on?

The docker daemon is failing to start/communicate correctly in the following function: balena-io-modules/balena-preload/blob/1d2db04725cc104249a081daea9e61aae5899fad/src/preload.py#L536 _docker_dir = mountpoint + "/docker" _rce_dir = mountpoint + …

Also could you provide the CLI version used in the aivero/balena-cli-action helper?

Thanks for the quick answer @ab77 and @klutchell This was run on v12.40.0. I will try again with the current 12.44 and will try to specify the DOCKER_HOST - @klutchell This is an environment variable, right? @ab77 Will check for /proc/filesystem

Just reran with 12.44.23 and setting the DOCKER_HOST: unix:///var/run/docker.sock which is also bind mount into the container.: ... - name: Balena preload from application uses: aivero/balena-cli-action@master if: success() timeout-minutes: 25 env: DO…

Try adding -P and/or --dockerHost|--docklerPort to your preload command. Perhaps see if you can just run docker ps in your pipeline to get a connection to the API and if that works, see if you can get docker info out of it to see what storage drivers are supported: $ docker info | grep Storage Sto…

@ab77 @klutchell I tried the -P or --dockerHost, but it appears as if the balena cli handles these incorrectly. Note that env: DOCKER_HOST: /var/run/docker.sock Instead of overriding the docker host as I would have expected, it seems to get appended: balena preload /home/runner/work/PATH…

I just checked the docs and it looks like for a volume mounted socket like that you can just use the --docker flag. [image] balena CLI Documentation - Balena Documentation balena preload /home/runner/work/PATH_TO_SOME_image.img -a MY_APPLICATION -c current --deb…

I had a look at the action you’re using and I think docker-in-docker might not be a supported scenario. You’re using run: using: docker : balena-cli-action/action.yml at master · aivero/balena-cli-action · GitHub But e.g. the official docker build step runs natively: build-push-action/action.yml a…

Hi there, The Docker in Docker is currently not supported in Github Actions but I successfully preloaded an image in Github action by running “manual commands” (not in docker containers actions). Here is an example of job balena-preload-raspberrypi3-64: runs-on: ubuntu-latest needs: can…

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maggie0002 July 26, 2022, 1:41pm 17

Linking here to a related thread on preloading with actions that I think will be of interest: Community built Github Deploy and Preload action

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