Allow custom packages to be installed | Feature Requests

Allow custom packages to be installed

Marc Köhlbrugge

Sometimes you might require packages that are not installed on the system. The only solution right now is to use Docker, which kind of defeats the ease-of-use reason many choose Render for.

See: https://community.render.com/t/install-additional-packages/280/4

July 16, 2021

Iliyan Iliev

Any updates on this? It's unfortunate that needing a single OS package installed, requires us to go through all the Docker setup... contrary to the reason why we use Render to simplify this whole process.

Iliyan Iliev

Anurag Goel any chance we see this added soon?

Tedi Papajorgji

Agreed +1

Entneo

What a deal breaker

Matt Popovich

+1, same issue, have to jump through all these painful debugging hoops just to do what I can do locally with one command (install playwright).

Josep Marc Mingot Hidalgo

Matt Popovich +1

Yonatan Wolowelsky

This would be great

Dejan Svetec

This would be such a great feature. I currently need to use Docker, but that doesn't have a

buildCommand

. I'd use the latter to run my migrations. With Docker, I need to run them as part of

dockerCommand

, but that triggers them on all service instances. So I also need a hacky script to manage that scenario.

rvmtraders

Aye, just tried to install Playwright, which requires OS level packages and couldn't install. Now I have to mess with docker... That ain't fun.