Issue 1:
We use CentOS in our Jenkins CI environment. We see a lot of challenges using Playwright from version 1.15.0 since it needs GLIBC_2.18 which is not available in CentOS.

Related thread for this feature request > #9194 (comment)

This is blocking us to upgrade the Playwright, and having support for CentOS7 would be great!

Issue 2:
We have our CI machines setup on centos7.

I am trying to integrate in our integration tests which runs on jenkins on centos machines.

Able to run tests using chrome but facing issues with following browsers:

Chromium :

<launching> /home/centos/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-920619/chrome-linux/chrome --disable-background-networking --enable-features=NetworkService,NetworkServiceInProcess --disable-background-timer-throttling --disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows --disable-breakpad --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages --disable-default-apps --disable-dev-shm-usage --disable-extensions --disable-features=ImprovedCookieControls,LazyFrameLoading,GlobalMediaControls,DestroyProfileOnBrowserClose,MediaRouter --allow-pre-commit-input --disable-hang-monitor --disable-ipc-flooding-protection --disable-popup-blocking --disable-prompt-on-repost --disable-renderer-backgrounding --disable-sync --force-color-profile=srgb --metrics-recording-only --no-first-run --enable-automation --password-store=basic --use-mock-keychain --no-service-autorun --user-data-dir=/tmp/playwright_chromiumdev_profile-GyWOJw --remote-debugging-pipe --headless --hide-scrollbars --mute-audio --blink-settings=primaryHoverType=2,availableHoverTypes=2,primaryPointerType=4,availablePointerTypes=4 --no-sandbox --no-startup-window
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.123Z] <launched> pid=20094
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.123Z] [pid=20094][err] /home/centos/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-920619/chrome-linux/chrome: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found (required by /home/centos/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-920619/chrome-linux/chrome)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.123Z] [pid=20094] <process did exit: exitCode=1, signal=null>
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.123Z] [pid=20094] starting temporary directories cleanup

This issue was earlier reported on 1.

Edge :

browserType.launch: Chromium distribution 'msedge' is not supported on linux
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.120Z]
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.120Z] at Object._baseTest.extend.browser.scope [as fn] (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/index.js:127:40)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.120Z] at Fixture.setup (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/fixtures.js:73:73)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] at FixtureRunner.setupFixtureForRegistration (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/fixtures.js:312:5)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] at FixtureRunner.resolveParametersAndRunHookOrTest (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/fixtures.js:297:23)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] at WorkerRunner._runTestWithBeforeHooks (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/workerRunner.js:449:7)

Issue reported earlier on 2

Webkit:

browserType.launch: Host system is missing dependencies!
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] Install missing packages with:
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-libav
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] Missing libraries we didn't find packages for:
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libnotify.so.4
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libopus.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libwoff2dec.so.1.0.2
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libharfbuzz-icu.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libgcrypt.so.20
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libgstapp-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libgstbase-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libgstreamer-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libgstpbutils-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libgstaudio-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libgsttag-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libgstvideo-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libgstgl-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libgstcodecparsers-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libgstfft-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libjpeg.so.8
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libpng16.so.16
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libopenjp2.so.7
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libwebpdemux.so.2
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libwebp.so.6
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libenchant.so.1
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libsecret-1.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libhyphen.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libicui18n.so.66
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libicuuc.so.66
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libevdev.so.2
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] libGLESv2.so.2
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] at Object._baseTest.extend.browser.scope [as fn] (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/index.js:127:40)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] at Fixture.setup (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/fixtures.js:73:73)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] at FixtureRunner.setupFixtureForRegistration (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/fixtures.js:312:5)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] at FixtureRunner.resolveParametersAndRunHookOrTest (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/fixtures.js:297:23)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] at WorkerRunner._runTestWithBeforeHooks (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/workerRunner.js:449:7)

Issue reported earlier on 3

As many organizations like ours uses centos machines as their infrastructure, this feature will have a wider impact and will help many developers.

Request playwright team to have a look at this request.

Thanks!!