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Unable to run npm install in pipeline using Artillery container for performance tests

I'm currently having issues with my performance tests running in the pipeline. I'm using Artillery to execute performance tests on a nightly CRON schedule and the workflow leverages Artillery's container: artilleryio/artillery:latest.

The issue I'm having is I can't run npm ci in the pipeline. I haven't been able to find a solution online. The only solution I've seen is npm clean cache, but that isn't working.

Error:

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! git dep preparation failed
npm ERR! command /usr/local/bin/node /__t/node/16.20.0/x64/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js install --force --cache=/github/home/.npm --prefer-offline=false --prefer-online=false --offline=false --no-progress --no-save --no-audit --include=dev --include=peer --include=optional --no-package-lock-only --no-dry-run
npm ERR! npm WARN using --force Recommended protections disabled.
npm ERR! npm ERR! code FETCH_ERROR
npm ERR! npm ERR! errno FETCH_ERROR
npm ERR! npm ERR! invalid json response body at https://registry.npmjs.org/jsesc reason: Invalid response body while trying to fetch https://registry.npmjs.org/jsesc: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/github/home/.npm/_cacache/content-v2/sha512/b6/68'

I'm able to run the Artillery perf tests locally. This is only an issue running npm ci in the pipeline using the Artillery container.

Workflow:

jobs:
  performance-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    permissions:
      contents: 'read'
      id-token: 'write' 

    environment:
      name: dev

    container: artilleryio/artillery:latest

    steps:
    - name: NPM Clean
      run: npm cache clean --force

    - name: NPM Install
      run: npm ci

    - name: Run Performance Tests
      env:
        # Insert required env variables for e2e tests below 
        AUTHORIZATION_LOGIN_PATH: ""
      run: //home/node/artillery/bin/run run -o notification.json test/performance/perf-tests.yml

    - name: Generate Performance Test
      run: //home/node/artillery/bin/run report --output notification.html notification.json

Solution

You can also use Artillery’s official GitHub Action for this, so you can just do:

jobs:
  artillery:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
      - name: Run performance tests
        uses: artilleryio/action-cli@v1
        with:
          command: run test/performance/perf-tests.yml

Their documentation has more relevant info and use cases too: