I'd like to use pnpm in my CI cloudbuild pipeline. But, does that mean that i have to install it in every step? Since steps in cloudbuild are indepedent from each other. What are the alternatives?

steps:
  - id: 'Node packages installing'
    name: ${_NODE_VERSION}
    entrypoint: 'bash'
    args:
      - "-c"
      - |
        npm install -g ${_PNPM_VERSION}
        pnpm install
  - name: ${_NODE_VERSION}
    entrypoint: 'bash'
    args:
      - "-c"
      - |
        npm install -g ${_PNPM_VERSION}
        pnpm run test

I'd like to use pnpm in my CI cloudbuild pipeline. But, does that mean that i have to install it in every step? Since steps in cloudbuild are indepedent from each other. What are the alternatives?

steps:
  - id: 'Node packages installing'
    name: ${_NODE_VERSION}
    entrypoint: 'bash'
    args:
      - "-c"
      - |
        npm install -g ${_PNPM_VERSION}
        pnpm install
  - name: ${_NODE_VERSION}
    entrypoint: 'bash'
    args:
      - "-c"
      - |
        npm install -g ${_PNPM_VERSION}
        pnpm run test

• google-cloud-platform
• continuous-integration
• google-cloud-build

1 Answer 1

I'd say that you need to persist the package (i.e. pnpm) as volumes, but you need to validate where is pnpm installed within the filesystem of the running pipeline on Cloud Build.

PD: I'm supposing you are installing globally pnpm.