Pipe definition fetch error

[Mike Burton]

So I've created my pipe repo and container, and now I'm trying to use the pipe using the repo reference syntax:

pipelines:
  custom: 
    testenv1:
      - step: *copyCodeToSharedStorage
      - step:
          script:
            - pipe: myorg/run-tagged-tests:0.3.0
              variables:
                HOST: testenv1.domain.com
                TAG: testTag1

When I run the above pipeline, I get the error "Pipe definition fetch error" during the build kickoff. The 0.3.0 tag does exist in both the repo and upstream in dockerhub. Not sure what else to look at.  

The *copyCodeToSharedStorage step just does a cp -r of all the code in the main pipeline repo (which also contains our test and production code) to the BITBUCKET_PIPE_SHARED_STORAGE location. I don't think it's causing this failure, though I'm admittedly not well-versed in all this.

[Tom Bradshaw · Accepted solution]

Hi Mike,

This normally occurs when there's a problem with the pipe.yml file. Unfortunately without more information we can't diagnose the specific issue.

Could you please add the pipe.yml file or create a support ticket at https://support.atlassian.com/ so we can look in to this further.

Cheers,
Tom.

[Tom Bradshaw]

New information: This can also be caused if the image name in the pipe.yml file is not well-formed and compliant with docker naming conventions. e.g.

image: and&two

 It would be a good idea to check this in your file.

Cheers,

Tom

[Mike Burton]

It seems the problem was with $BITBUCKET_PIPE_SHARED_STORAGE_DIR not being defined at the top level.

We've had to back off of the pipe approach anyway, so I'll just close this question. I ended up just doing a parallel step-set inside a custom pipeline to do test subset reruns, which was the original purpose of the pipe.