[Question] Alpine Linux Support

[hoIIer]

Do you guys have any plans to add an official docker image for Alpine Linux users?

[aslushnikov]

It's not hi in our priorities, but we might have it some time in future. For now, we'd be happy to refer to a third-party image, if there's one!

[Niek]

This would require a special build for musl libc. It would be great to have though.

Edit: the Alpine team maintains a Chromium build in their aports tree, it requires quite some patches though that are not upstreamed (yet): https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/tree/master/community/chromium

Edit 2: there is an great Docker image with Playwright support now, see: https://github.com/Zenika/alpine-chrome#how-to-use-with-playwright

[damianobarbati]

@Niek is it possible to have an official ms / playwright Docker image based on alpine?

[Niek]

@Niek is it possible to have an official ms / playwright Docker image based on alpine?

Possible? Yes. Will it ever happen? No idea, you should ask MS / the Playwright team like @aslushnikov 😄

[damianobarbati]

@aslushnikov is this something your team considered? 🥲

[aslushnikov]

There are no plans for Alpine support so far as of Dec 2022!

[TroyKomodo]

wild

[aslushnikov]

Hey everybody!

There's now an experimental support for all linux distributions using our browser container image mcr.microsoft.com/playwright.
If you can run this container image on your linux distribution, then you can instruct @playwright/test to connect to it and run browsers inside the container.

Please give it a try and let us know what you think here: #26482