Can't run Bazel nodejs_image with Puppeteer (Error: libgobject-2.0.so.0)

Question

I am using Bazel to build Docker containers:

ts_config(
    name = "tsconfig",
    src = "tsconfig.lib.json",
)

ts_project(
    name = "lib",
    srcs = ["index.ts"],
    declaration = True,
    tsconfig = "tsconfig",
    deps = [
        "@npm//@types/node",
        "@npm//puppeteer",
    ],
)

nodejs_binary(
    name = "server",
    data = [
        "lib",
    ],
    entry_point = "index.ts",
)

nodejs_image(
    name = "image",
    binary = "server",
)

Running the nodejs_binary works fine.

But running the nodejs_image "image" throws an error:

(node:44) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Failed to launch the browser process!
/app/server.runfiles/node_puppeteer/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-901912/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md

---

Hence I've tried to add a custom base (this one) image like this:

nodejs_image(
    name = "base_image",
    base = "@nodejs_puppeteer//image",
    binary = "server",
)

and in WORKSPACE:

load("@io_bazel_rules_docker//container:container.bzl", "container_pull")

container_pull(
    name = "nodejs_puppeteer",
    digest = "sha256:22ec485fa257ec892efc2a8b69ef9a3a2a81a0f6622969ffe2d416d2a076214b",
    registry = "docker.io",
    repository = "drakery/node-puppeteer:latest",
)

However running the updated nodejs_image "base_image", throws this error:

[link_node_modules.js] An error has been reported: [Error: EACCES: permission denied, symlink '/app/server.runfiles/npm/node_modules' -> 'node_modules'] {
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'symlink',
  path: '/app/server.runfiles/npm/node_modules',
  dest: 'node_modules'
} Error: EACCES: permission denied, symlink '/app/server.runfiles/npm/node_modules' -> 'node_modules'

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How can I add the missing dependencies into the nodejs_image?

A minimal reproduction of the issue can be found here: https://github.com/flolu/bazel-node-puppeteer

Answer 1

As suggested by @Rohan Singh and @Noam Yizraeli, I've tried to change the custom base image to my development environment. Hence I've created a Docker image with Ubuntu as is it's base and Node.js as well as Chrome installed:

FROM ubuntu:20.04

# Install Node.js
RUN apt-get update \
  && apt-get install -y curl
RUN curl --silent --location https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | bash -
RUN apt-get install --yes nodejs
RUN apt-get install --yes build-essential

# Install Chrome
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
RUN apt-get update \
  && apt-get install -y wget gnupg \
  && wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add - \
  && sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list' \
  && apt-get update \
  && apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-thai-tlwg fonts-kacst fonts-freefont-ttf libxss1 \
  --no-install-recommends \
  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

I pulled it in Bazel like this:

load("@io_bazel_rules_docker//container:container.bzl", "container_pull")

container_pull(
    name = "ubuntu",
    digest = "sha256:a1ceb3aac586b6377821ffe6aede35c3646649ee5ac38c3566799cd04745257f",
    registry = "docker.io",
    repository = "drakery/node-puppeteer",
)

And used it like this:

nodejs_image(
    name = "custom_ubuntu",
    base = "@ubuntu//image",
    binary = "server",
)

Here is the final working repository: https://github.com/flolu/bazel-node-puppeteer/tree/050376d36bccb67a93933882a459f0af3051eabd