After spending the entire day searching online, I was finally able to locate the solution. In order to assist others who may encounter the same issue, I am documenting it here. Selenium is a widely used Python software for conducting end-to-end testing. Chrome is the preferred headless web browser for this purpose. Our objective is to replicate this process on an M1Mac in a Docker environment.
TL;DR
FROM python:3.9
# actually python image is debian based
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
RUN pip install --upgrade pip
# set environment variables
ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
WORKDIR /backend
COPY requirements.txt . /
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt --no-cache-dir
COPY . .
RUN apt update -y && apt install libgl1-mesa-glx sudo chromium chromium-driver -y
ENTRYPOINT [ ". /run-celery.sh"]
Basically, you can use this docker image GitHub - SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium: Provides a simple way to run Selenium Grid with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge using Docker, making it easier to perform browser automation
However, on M1Mac you’ll be annoyed as follows;
unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn’t exist launching ChromeDriver
Many articles on StackOverflow weren’t helpful so need to fix some lines. selenium - headless chrome on docker M1 error - unable to discover open window in chrome - Stack Overflow