I can't use pm2 commands in bitbucket pipeline

[İbrahim Sayar]

I have a bitbucket-pipeline file as below but i get a 'pm2: not found' error when pipeline worked. Thanks for now help and comments.

---

image: node:18

pipelines:
  branches:
    development:
      - parallel:
          - step:
              name: Development Build & Deploy
              caches:
                - node
              script:
                - pm2 reload 0

[Theodora Boudale]

Hi İbrahim and welcome to the community!

Pipelines builds that run on Atlassian's infrastructure run in Docker containers. For every step of your build, a Docker container starts (the build container) using the image you have specified in your bitbucket-pipelines.yml file. The step you have posted here will run in a Docker container based on the following Dockerhub image with the tag 18:

• https://hub.docker.com/_/node

Any tools you want to use during a step must be either preinstalled in the Docker image you use as a build container, or you will need to install them during the build by adding the necessary commands in your yml file's script for that step.

The Dockerhub image node:18 doesn't have pm2 preinstalled. You can add a command to install it in that step (you can check this doc, in case this is the tool you are referring to), or you can create a custom Docker image with this and other tools you need, and then use that as a build container in your Pipelines build:

• https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/use-docker-images-as-build-environments/#Creating-a-custom-build-environment

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Kind regards,
Theodora

[İbrahim Sayar]

Because our test app stand up with pm2. Pm2 installed our server. You can see in the picture below.

[marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-]

Pm2 not found indicates that pm2 might not be installed.

However, why do you need pm2 in a build pipeline?  Usually pm2 is used as a process supervisor for long-running node processes.

[İbrahim Sayar]

Because our test app stand up with pm2. Pm2 installed our server. You can see in the picture below. My problem is why I can't use pm2 commands in pipeline.