Hi Just getting started with pants I ve got everything runni

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Hi Just getting started with pants I ve got everything running locally and am working on getting my CI environment configured I m hitting issues with docker builds Does anyone have any insight or experience using `docker image` targets on github actions I ve enabled every debug option I can think of and I m getting no hints that make sense to me The docker executable is successfully discovered but then pants is failing to connect to the docker daemon None of our existing CI jobs have any issue with this

bitter-ability-32190 · Answer

I m not well versed but I know docker in docker is a challenge for some reason Perhaps this is related

glamorous-knife-59091 · Answer

Yeah it might be We re successfully using it elsewhere though so I m not sure what is different for pants yet

glamorous-knife-59091 · Answer

Thanks for the hint it was in fact a docker in docker quirk Just needed to set a few extra env vars in the pants config for docker and it s all happy now

happy-kitchen-89482 · Answer

Glad to hear it Can you mention which env vars I d love to add that to the troubleshooting page in the docs

glamorous-knife-59091 · Answer

happened to be the few already mentioned there actually <https www pantsbuild org docs docker docker configuration> Our other build tools must automatically pick up `DOCKER HOST` from the environment so it didn t occur to me that I needed to explicitly add that to the config to pick it up