Chrome with Selenium inside a Docker container running failed

Gboye Show

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Jul 2, 2019, 3:52:57 AM7/2/19

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Hello everyone,

Running tests on the local computer through chromedriver works great, but I run tests

through a grid(on the local machine) the failure rate goes way up .Running a Chrome browser inside a Docker container with Selenium used to be a challenging

here is my code please let me know if I'm doing it wrongly.

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","c:\\usr\\bin\\chromedriver\\chromedriver");
options.addArguments("no-sandbox");
options.addArguments("--disable-popup-blocking");
options.addArguments("-- disable-translate");
options.addArguments("--start-maximized");
options.addArguments("--headless");
options.addArguments("window-size=1200x600");
driver = new RemoteWebDriver(URI.create("http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub").toURL(), options);
//driver.get("http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub").toURL(), new ChromeOptions();
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝

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Jul 2, 2019, 4:17:32 AM7/2/19

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You should be able to extend the concept as shown in this sample code that I created wherein I spin off a Grid and a node on-demand as docker container.

https://github.com/RationaleEmotions/talk2grid/blob/master/src/test/java/com/rationaleemotions/Grid.java

You should be able to alter it and just resort to spinning off standalone nodes.

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

"All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening or in love with someone else!"
My Scribblings @ http://wakened-cognition.blogspot.com/

My Technical Scribblings @ https://rationaleemotions.com/

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John Doe

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Jul 2, 2019, 4:52:11 AM7/2/19

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One thing which looks suspicious is your webdriver.chrome.driver property value, in the vast majority of cases Docker containers are Linux-based and in Linux there is no C drive, all paths start from /.

So your Dockerfile should have a relevant RUN command to download and extract the relevant ChromeDriver for Linux and you need to amend your webdriver.chrome.driver property to point to the correct location.