How to make Zalenium work with AWS Fargate? - selenium

Question

The issue
I would like to use Zalenium in a container using AWS Fargate. However, to do so, we have to pull two images: Zalenium and Selenium. Indeed, during its process, Zalenium creates containers using Selenium image. Therefore it needs to find the Image somewhere.
A possible solution
I was thinking of creating an ubuntu container with Docker installed which would run the following commands:
It would first pull the images
docker pull elgalu/selenium
docker pull dosel/zalenium
and then create a Zalenium container with the Docker socket mounted to create another container:
docker run --rm -ti --name zalenium -p 4444:4444 \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
-v /tmp/videos:/home/seluser/videos \
--privileged dosel/zalenium start
That would mean I would create a container that would inside another container that would be inside another container which doesn't sound straightforward.
So before doing that, I wanted to check if someone wouldn't have a better solution. As being new to AWS, I might have missed something.

Answer 1

You can pull the image implicity through the Zalenium container, just check https://opensource.zalando.com/zalenium/#tryit, section "Or without pulling elgalu/selenium explicitly:"
Example:
# Pull Zalenium
docker pull dosel/zalenium
# Run it!
docker run --rm -ti --name zalenium -p 4444:4444 \
-e PULL_SELENIUM_IMAGE=true \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
-v /tmp/videos:/home/seluser/videos \
--privileged dosel/zalenium start
# Point your tests to http://localhost:4444/wd/hub and run them
# Stop
docker stop zalenium