build-push-action VS starter-workflows

We use the docker/build-push-action to build the application image. In addition to setting the correct tag, the image build step must also provide a label matching your service name. Because the image should be pushed to your container registry, we set push: true, and because we want ludicrous build speed we instruct the build step to utilize the GitHub Actions cache.

name: Lint and Dockerize the app on: push: branches: [master] pull_request: branches: [master] env: # Use docker.io for Docker Hub if empty REGISTRY: docker.io # github.repository as / IMAGE_NAME: ${{ github.repository }} jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest permissions: contents: read packages: write steps: - name: Checkout repository uses: actions/checkout@v2 - name: Set up Google Cloud uses: google-github-actions/[email protected] with: project_id: ${{ secrets.GCP_PROJECT_ID }} service_account_key: ${{ secrets.GCP_SA_KEY }} # Login against a Docker registry except on PR # https://github.com/docker/login-action - name: Log into registry ${{ env.REGISTRY }} # if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' uses: docker/login-action@v1 with: username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }} password: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }} # Extract metadata (tags, labels) for Docker # https://github.com/docker/metadata-action #- name: Extract Docker metadata # id: meta # uses: docker/metadata-action@98669ae865ea3cffbcbaa878cf57c20bbf1c6c38 # with: # images: ${{ env.REGISTRY }}/${{ env.IMAGE_NAME }} # Build and push Docker image with Buildx (don't push on PR) # https://github.com/docker/build-push-action - name: Build and push Docker image uses: docker/build-push-action@v2 with: context: ./ tags: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}/magga:latest push: true file: ./Dockerfile - name: Image digest run: echo

docker/build-push-action@v4 to build and push Docker images with Buildx.

Hmmm interesting question... I use the following in my yaml: yaml - name: Build and push uses: https://github.com/docker/build-push-action@v2 can't you just use like: yaml - name: NTFY uses: https://github.com/dawidd6/action-send-mail@v3 and use the actions explained in the links?

Docker made some decent actions free to use like this one to build and push docker images to registries.

name: Docker Image Publish on: push: branches: [ "main" ] # Publish semver tags as releases. tags: [ 'v*.*.*' ] pull_request: branches: [ "main" ] env: # Use docker.io for Docker Hub if empty REGISTRY: ghcr.io # github.repository as / IMAGE_NAME: ${{ github.repository }} jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest permissions: contents: read packages: write # This is used to complete the identity challenge # with sigstore/fulcio when running outside of PRs. id-token: write steps: - name: Checkout repository uses: actions/checkout@v3 # Install the cosign tool except on PR # https://github.com/sigstore/cosign-installer - name: Install cosign if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' uses: sigstore/cosign-installer@f3c664df7af409cb4873aa5068053ba9d61a57b6 #v2.6.0 with: cosign-release: 'v1.11.0' # Workaround: https://github.com/docker/build-push-action/issues/461 - name: Setup Docker buildx uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2 # Login against a Docker registry except on PR # https://github.com/docker/login-action - name: Log into registry ${{ env.REGISTRY }} if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' uses: docker/login-action@28218f9b04b4f3f62068d7b6ce6ca5b26e35336c with: registry: ${{ env.REGISTRY }} username: ${{ github.actor }} password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # Extract metadata (tags, labels) for Docker # https://github.com/docker/metadata-action - name: Extract Docker metadata id: meta uses: docker/metadata-action@98669ae865ea3cffbcbaa878cf57c20bbf1c6c38 with: images: ${{ env.REGISTRY }}/${{ env.IMAGE_NAME }} # Build and push Docker image with Buildx (don't push on PR) # https://github.com/docker/build-push-action - name: Build and push Docker image id: build-and-push uses: docker/build-push-action@v4 with: context: "{{defaultContext}}:src" push: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }} # Don't push on PR tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }} labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels }} cache-from: type=gha cache-to: type=gha,mode=max

Build and push Docker image: We will use the docker/build-push-action action to build and push the Docker image to Docker Hub. We will use the following inputs:

I previously tried to use Docker `docker/setup-qemu-action@v2` and `docker/setup-buildx-action@v2` for this purpose (see that example https://github.com/docker/build-push-action#git-context). Thanks to buildkit, platform switching works transparently. However, building on ARM via QEMU on GitHub Actions is terribly slow (something like 5 times more), which is hard to accept. Therefore, full of hope, I am waiting for GitHub Actions to make cloud runners available on ARM, because it is a blocker for the implementation of Graviton on the AWS environment for us.

For a while, the blocker in GitHub Actions for providing ARM support was that Azure doesn't have ARM support. In this way, the Azure cloud offering may determine the habits of AWS consumers.

Build and push an image in CI. This extends #2 by pushing the image to a container registry. DockerHub is the default registry in Docker, but isn't the only registry. You could use GitHub's Container Registry as well. We (Docker) have supported GitHub Actions with lots of documentation to help out. You could then extend the pipeline to actually deploy your updated image too.

GitHub, as one of the leading web-based Git repository hosting service, provides a powerful suite of CI/CD tools in the form of GitHub Actions. These are directly integrated into the platform which empowers developers to increase the speed, efficiency and reliability of delivering products. In this brief article, we will take a look at what CI/CD is, why we should use it, as well as some of its applications in my projects.

GitHub Actions is a modern CI/CD tool integrated natively on GitHub. Itenables the rapid automation of build, test, deployment, and other custom workflows on GitHub with no need for external tools.

GitHub Actions is GitHub's CI/CD solution. You can use it to run automated tasks each time you change your code. Although the platform lacks a built-in Kubernetes integration, third-party plugins such as Azure's Deploy to Kubernetes Cluster action can automate deployments and manage different rollout strategies.

GitHub Actions is a feature-rich CI/CD platform embedded within GitHub, enabling developers to automate, customize, and execute software development workflows directly in their repositories. An Action inside GitHub Actions is a discrete unit of automation that performs a specific task within a workflow. All the Actions are reusable, and there are many to choose from. You can even create your own reusable ones.

actions/starter-workflows

The real power of using PHP code-quality tools is when it’s added to your continuous integration process, which means it automatically checks the code every time someone makes a push or pull request to your project repo. In this section, we'll be looking at how to do just that. GitHub actions is available for free so we'll use it for demo purposes. Note that there are some limits to private repos, so set your test repo to public if you can.

You can even automate the running of this script — hence the directory name automation — to happen every time the data changes, using GitHub Actions.

# Based on https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows/blob/main/ci/node.js.yml name: CI on: pull_request: branches: - main jobs: ci: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v2 - uses: actions/setup-node@v2 with: node-version: lts/* cache: 'npm' - run: npm ci - run: npm run build --if-present - run: npm test

You might remember that I’ve been taking an interest in GitHub Actions for the last year or so (I even wrote a book on the subject). And at the Perl Conference in Toronto last summer I gave a talk called “GitHub Actions for Perl Development” (here are the slides and the video).