.ebextensions config file to load NodeJS EB instance with packages needed for Puppeteer/Chromium

chromiumpackages.config

# This is for ElasticBeanstalk with Amazon Linux 2023. For previous Linux 2 or Linux 1, see revisions for ideas
packages:
  yum:
    cups-libs: []
    libdrm: []
    libXdamage: []
    libXfixes: []
    libXrandr: []
    mesa-libgbm: []
    libxkbcommon: []
    dbus-glib: []
    libXrandr: []
    libXcursor: []
    libXinerama: []
    cairo: []
    cairo-gobject: []
    pango: []
    liberation-sans-fonts: []
    libwayland-client: []
    libwayland-cursor: []
    gtk3: []
    gdk-pixbuf2: []
    libxkbcommon: []
    libXScrnSaver: []
    libpkgconf: []
    atk: []
    at-spi2-atk: []
    at-spi2-core: []
    alsa-lib: []

commands:
  refresh-fonts:
    command: |
      fc-cache-64 -f -v

I can't get this to work as random packages fail install, and even when they don't packages are still required. The process of updating and deploying takes a while. Is there not a simpler more reliable way to do this?

My environment is EBS Amazon Linux 2 and Node 12.

Same here, not working anymore

Doesn't work for me:

2020-10-13 22:17:41,853 [ERROR] -----------------------BUILD FAILED!------------------------
2020-10-13 22:17:41,853 [ERROR] Unhandled exception during build: Command libwayland-client failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/aws/bin/cfn-init", line 171, in <module>
    worklog.build(metadata, configSets)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cfnbootstrap/construction.py", line 129, in build
    Contractor(metadata).build(configSets, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cfnbootstrap/construction.py", line 530, in build
    self.run_config(config, worklog)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cfnbootstrap/construction.py", line 542, in run_config
    CloudFormationCarpenter(config, self._auth_config).build(worklog)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cfnbootstrap/construction.py", line 260, in build
    changes['commands'] = CommandTool().apply(self._config.commands)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cfnbootstrap/command_tool.py", line 117, in apply
    raise ToolError(u"Command %s failed" % name)
ToolError: Command libwayland-client failed

Platform branch: Node.js 10 running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2
Current platform version: 5.2.2

Were you able to find a solution for this ? I am getting the same error

We recently moved to Amazon Linux 2 and the upgrade had some changes for this config. (Revision 4)
Available Yum libs made it all a lot easier. I added the comments (prefixed with #) live in this gist, so if they break, remove them!
Linux (1) ideas are in the prior revisions.

You are my hero! Thank you so much!

This worked with Node.js 16 running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2/5.5.6 🎉

Thank you!!

I found an easy way on Amazon Linux 2 is just:

packages: 
  yum:
    google-chrome-stable: []

This will install all required libraries with google chrome, even if you use the local installation from puppeteer afterwards.

Additionally I needed to configure the cache directory of puppeteer to a local directory, because how staging of new versions works on Elastic Beanstalk. Just put a .puppeteerrc.cjs in your project root:

const {join} = require('path');

/**
 * @type {import("puppeteer").Configuration}
 */
module.exports = {
  // Changes the cache location for Puppeteer.
  cacheDirectory: join(__dirname, '.cache', 'puppeteer'),
};

@falco467 I'm facing the similar issue with Playwright package which cannot use due to dependencies issue. Please see my latest log which I raised in StackOverflow and if you can point me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74696909/error-in-aws-elastic-beanstalk-for-using-playwrightcrawler-package

And how do you install puppeter (in my case playwright)?

I tried with command

npx playwright install chromium but it throws error

@wojtekKrol
Exactly as @SFaraji wrote in his StackOverflow answer. You need to install playwright with EBCONFIG file:

 command: PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=$HOME/pw-browsers npx playwright install