Using git as a source for k8s trigger: git executable not found

[bkanuka]

Using git as a source for k8s trigger fails with error: "failed to fetch artifact, failed after retries: failed to fetch. err: exec: "git": executable file not found"

I'm using the following Sensor:

apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: Sensor
metadata:
  name: github-auto-build
spec:
  template:
    container:
      env:
        - name: DEBUG_LOG
          value: "true"
      volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /git
          name: git
    volumes:
      - name: git
        emptyDir: {}
    serviceAccountName: operate-workflow-sa
  dependencies:
    - name: github
      eventSourceName: github
      eventName: github-climateengine
      filters:
        data:
          - path: headers.X-Github-Event
            type: string
            value:
              - push
  triggers:
    - template:
        name: workflow-trigger
        k8s:
          operation: create
          source:
            git:
              url: "https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows.git"
              cloneDirectory: "/git/argoproj"
              namespace: argo-events
              filePath: "examples/hello-world.yaml"
              branch: "master"

The template fails with the message:

2024-03-12T21:09:14.490Z ERROR argo-events.sensor sensors/listener.go:379 Failed to execute a trigger {"sensorName": "github-auto-build", "error": "failed to fetch artifact, failed after retries: failed to fetch. err: exec: \"git\": executable file not found in $PATH", "triggerName": "build-workflow", "triggeredBy": ["github"], "triggeredByEvents": ["34383866653034612d383330372d346161312d383264302d633730643666363239613730"]}

I can confirm that the Sensor is running a Pod with image quay.io/argoproj/argo-events:v1.9.1

Environment:

• Kubernetes: v1.26.13
• Argo Workflows: v3.5.5
• Argo Events: v1.9.1

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[bkanuka]

It looks like git was added to an old image in this PR: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-events/pull/521 It's possible when moving to a single image, git was left out.

[bkanuka]

I can confirm that this is simply a matter of the git binary not being on the argo-events image. I used the following Dockerfile as the Sensor image and was able to use git sources successfully!

Ignore the hack of downloading argo-events in the Dockerfile (I didn't want to build the whole project from scratch :wink: ). The important part is simply installing git in the base and copying it to the final image like all the other binaries:

ARG ARCH=$TARGETARCH
####################################################################################################
# base
####################################################################################################
FROM alpine:3.16.2 as base
ARG ARCH
RUN apk update && apk upgrade && \
    apk add ca-certificates && \
    apk --no-cache add tzdata git

ENV ARGO_VERSION=v3.4.8

RUN wget -q https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/releases/download/${ARGO_VERSION}/argo-linux-${ARCH}.gz
RUN gunzip -f argo-linux-${ARCH}.gz
RUN chmod +x argo-linux-${ARCH}
RUN mv ./argo-linux-${ARCH} /usr/local/bin/argo

RUN wget -q https://github.com/argoproj/argo-events/releases/download/v1.9.1/argo-events-linux-${ARCH}.gz
RUN gunzip -f argo-events-linux-${ARCH}.gz
RUN chmod +x argo-events-linux-${ARCH}
RUN mv ./argo-events-linux-${ARCH} /bin/argo-events

####################################################################################################
# argo-events
####################################################################################################
FROM scratch as argo-events
ARG ARCH
COPY --from=base /usr/share/zoneinfo /usr/share/zoneinfo
COPY --from=base /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
COPY --from=base /usr/local/bin/argo /usr/local/bin/argo
COPY --from=base /bin/argo-events /bin/argo-events
COPY --from=base /usr/bin/git /usr/bin/git
ENTRYPOINT [ "/bin/argo-events" ]

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[bkanuka]

This still exists and is a relatively easy fix. I will look into making a PR if I have time