Failing to run curl command from NodeJS Function on version 1.5.x

I am recieiving this error when I run a function which calls the exec function then runs the curl command.

Can I run commands using exec in NodeJS in an Appwrite function?

The error: Error: Command failed: curl -X POST https://xxxxxx.erply.com/api/ -d "clientCode=xxxxxx&username=xxx@xxxx.xx&password=xxxxxxxxx&request=verifyUser&sendContentType=1" /bin/sh: curl: not found

at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:398:12)
at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:527:28)
at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1092:16)
at Socket.<anonymous> (node:internal/child_process:451:11)
at Socket.emit (node:events:527:28)
at Pipe.<anonymous> (node:net:709:12)

As it says, curl is not installed

But why are you exec'ing when you can make the API call in node?

curl not installed on the base machine?

In the container

which specific one? I just tried installing curl on 'appwrite' and got same result. I used docker exec -it appwrite /bin/sh then used apk add curl