Podman pulling image on every build despite edits to source about podman-gitlab-runner HOT 3 CLOSED

You changed both files prepare.sh and cleanup.sh as shown in your post, but podman is pulling the image every time. Did I understand your problem correctly?

Your change looks good. You also want to copy the --authfile "$CACHE_DIR"/_authfile_"$CONTAINER_ID" argument to the podman run call though, as otherwise the authentication might be missing. A --pull= argument could be present in PODMAN_RUN_ARGS, but by default the variable is unused.

I could imagine changing the code to something like this, such that the pull policy could be overwritten in PODMAN_RUN_ARGS. It seems that the last specified value wins. But I am not sure if this might lead to problems when podman and rm race to access the authfile.

    podman run \
        --detach \
        --authfile "$CACHE_DIR"/_authfile_"$CONTAINER_ID" \
        --pull=always \
        --name "$CONTAINER_ID" \
        --volume "$CACHE_DIR:/home/user/cache":Z \
        "${PODMAN_RUN_ARGS[@]}" \
        "$IMAGE"\
        sleep 999999999
    rm "$CACHE_DIR"/_authfile_"$CONTAINER_ID"

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Thanks @jonasbb! Yes, you summarized my problem correctly. I'll attempt what you've suggested and get back to you next week.

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I wasn't able to get to this and I'm about to go on vacation. I'll close this for now and update when I can try again.

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