setup-node VS setup-buildx-action

Setup environment with Nodejs and install dependencies with npm install, with Github Actions setup Node

No, PR review isn't the only thing that prevents these from being updated. In the yml it's set to a release branch. So it isn't especially fallible.

https://github.com/actions/setup-node/tree/releases/v2

➜ getting-started-with-act git:(master) act -j build WARN ⚠ You are using Apple M1 chip and you have not specified container architecture, you might encounter issues while running act. If so, try running it with '--container-architecture linux/amd64'. ⚠ [Node.js CI/build] 🚀 Start image=node:16-buster-slim [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker pull image=node:16-buster-slim platform= username= forcePull=false [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker create image=node:16-buster-slim platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker run image=node:16-buster-slim platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/setup-node' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/cache' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ⭐ Run Main actions/checkout@v3 [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker cp src=/Users/andrewevans/Documents/projects/getting-started-with-act/. dst=/Users/andrewevans/Documents/projects/getting-started-with-act [Node.js CI/build] ✅ Success - Main actions/checkout@v3 [Node.js CI/build] ⭐ Run Main Use Node.js 16.x [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker cp src=/Users/andrewevans/.cache/act/actions-setup-node@v3/ dst=/var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-node@v3/ [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker exec cmd=[node /var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-node@v3/dist/setup/index.js] user= workdir= [Node.js CI/build] 💬 ::debug::isExplicit: [Node.js CI/build] 💬 ::debug::explicit? false

steps: # Check out the current repository code - uses: actions/checkout@v3 # 3. https://github.com/actions/setup-node#usage - name: Setup node and build Gatsby uses: actions/setup-node@v1 with: node-version: '16.x' cache: 'npm' - run: npm install # This triggers `gatsby build` script in "package.json" - run: npm run build # 4. Deploy the gatsby build to Netlify - name: Deploy to netlify uses: netlify/actions/cli@master env: NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN }} NETLIFY_SITE_ID: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_SITE_ID }} with: # 5. "gatsby build" creates "public" folder, which is what we are deploying args: deploy --dir=public --prod secrets: '["NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN", "NETLIFY_SITE_ID"]'

If you see repeated build or preparation steps that do not change when your codebase changes, look into caching the results. Here is a straightforward guide to caching, but also be aware caching is built into a lot of marketplace actions anyway, e.g. actions/setup-node can cache npm dependencies.

The most popular ones are Node.js, Python, Java JDK, Go, .Net Core SDK.

diff --git a/.github/workflows/gh-pages.yaml b/.github/workflows/gh-pages.yaml index 401fd33..3ddf6dd 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/gh-pages.yaml +++ b/.github/workflows/gh-pages.yaml @@ -11,42 +11,48 @@ on: jobs: deploy: - runs-on: ubuntu-20.04 + runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 + # Ensure that only a single job or workflow + # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-jobs/using-concurrency concurrency: + # workflow - The name of the workflow. + # ref - The branch or tag ref that triggered the workflow run. group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }} steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v3 with: - submodules: true # Fetch Hugo themes (true OR recursive) fetch-depth: 0 # Fetch all history for .GitInfo and .Lastmod + # https://github.com/peaceiris/actions-hugo - name: Setup Hugo uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2 with: - hugo-version: '0.91.2' - # extended: true + hugo-version: '0.101.0' + # https://github.com/actions/setup-node - name: Setup Node uses: actions/setup-node@v3 with: - node-version: '14' - - - name: Cache dependencies - uses: actions/cache@v2 - with: - path: ~/.npm - key: ${{ runner.os }}-node-${{ hashFiles('**/package-lock.json') }} - restore-keys: | - ${{ runner.os }}-node- - - - run: npm ci + node-version: '18.7.0' + cache: npm + # The action defaults to search for the dependency file (package-lock.json, + # npm-shrinkwrap.json or yarn.lock) in the repository root, and uses its + # hash as a part of the cache key. + # https://github.com/actions/setup-node/blob/main/docs/advanced-usage.md#caching-packages-data + cache-dependency-path: ./blog/package-lock.json + + - name: Install npm dependencies + working-directory: ./blog/ + run: npm ci - name: Build - run: hugo --minify + working-directory: ./blog/ + run: npm run build + # https://github.com/peaceiris/actions-gh-pages - name: Deploy uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3 if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }} with: github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} - publish_dir: ./public + publish_dir: ./blog/src/public

Well, let’s consider the scenario we had with the DevHub. We were using the third-party action setup-node to install and configure the Node.js programming language. This action lets you specify the node version to install but it can’t be a dynamically acquired value. You either have to hardcode it or interpolate the value.

This is hitting workflows that use caching [1][2].

- [1] https://github.com/actions/setup-node/issues/516

- [2] https://github.com/actions/cache/issues/820

As of now (11:28 UTC) the status page has been updated.

https://www.githubstatus.com

Good luck running this locally. There's no script code to speak of, just references to external "actions" and parameters (for example, https://github.com/docker/setup-buildx-action).

Some CI platforms are just a simple glue layer (Gitlab CI - which I prefer - is one of them), but in most cases Github CI is not. Maybe it adds to the author frustration?

Set up Docker Buildx: We will use the docker/setup-buildx-action action to set up Docker Buildx.

There’s an amazing docker/bake-action which makes it insanely easy to build all of your containers in the most optimal way. Since we’ve set the group “default” block in the docker-bake.hcl, config is very minimal. One step in your GitHub Action workflow file will build all of your images and will push all of your cache layers, tag all of your containers, and push all your final images. You’ll still have to do things like checkout the code and don’t forget that you’ll want to use the docker/setup-buildx-action since bake is a buildx feature. There’s one quick gotcha for the actual docker/bake-action. We don’t want to push PR builds and we don’t want to pollute the cache with PR builds.

To be clear, that article does NOT provide a solution for avoiding QEMU. I suggested it because it describes "the hard way" to get a single image multi-arch image. The github action crazy-max/ghaction-docker-buildx has been archived and replaced by docker/setup-qemu-action and docker/setup-buildx-action, which it seems like you were already using.

Third step is docker/setup-buildx-action configures buildx, which is a Docker CLI plugin that provides enhanced build capabilities.

We then use the docker/setup-buildx-action action to initialize an environment to build Docker images:

The setup-buildx-action configures Docker Buildx to create a builder instance for running the image build. The following step build-push-action, makes use of that instance to build your Docker image. The build-push-action supports all of the features provided by BuildKit out of the box. In our simple example, we are only specifying the Docker context, but more advanced features like SSH, secrets, and build args are supported.

# Get the repository's code - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v2 # https://github.com/docker/setup-qemu-action - name: Set up QEMU uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v1 # https://github.com/docker/setup-buildx-action - name: Set up Docker Buildx id: buildx uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v1

docker/setup-buildx-action@v1 - we use it to setup the docker builder