Automatically set necessary arguments to run in AWS lambda

Author: cyrilwanner

src/CommandWrapper.ts

@@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ export default class CommandWrapper {
           CYPRESS_LOCAL_HISTORY: this.config.isLocalHistoryEnabled() ? '1' : '0',
           TZ: this.getTimezone(),
           ...npmRunPath.env({ env: process.env }),
+          // if running in AWS lambda, set the necessary args so that cypress can start
+          ...(process.env.AWS_LAMBDA === '1'
+            ? {
+                ELECTRON_EXTRA_LAUNCH_ARGS: '--no-zygote --disable-gpu --single-process',
+              }
+            : {}),
         },
       });
 

src/Plugins/index.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,28 @@ const plugin = (on: (task: string, config: unknown) => void): void => {
   on('task', {
     storeLocalHistory,
   });
+
+  // if running in AWS lambda, set the necessary args so that cypress can start a chromium based browser
+  if (process.env.AWS_LAMBDA === '1') {
+    on(
+      'before:browser:launch',
+      (browser: Cypress.Browser, browserLaunchOptions: Cypress.BeforeBrowserLaunchOptions) => {
+        if (browser.family === 'chromium') {
+          browserLaunchOptions.args.push(
+            '--no-sandbox',
+            '--no-zygote',
+            '--disable-setuid-sandbox',
+            '--disable-web-security',
+            '--disable-gpu',
+            '--disable-software-rasterizer',
+            '--disable-dev-shm-usage',
+          );
+        }
+
+        return browserLaunchOptions;
+      },
+    );
+  }
 };
 
 export default plugin;