Build Docker image and push it
Build Docker image and push it.
name: Push into main branchon:
push:
branches: [ master ]jobs:
context:
runs-on: ubuntu-lateststeps:
- name: Checkoutuses: actions/checkout@v3
- name: Buildid: builduses: cloudposse/github-action-docker-build-push@mainwith:
registry: registry.hub.docker.comorganization: "${{ github.event.repository.owner.login }}"repository: "${{ github.event.repository.name }}"login: "${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}"password: "${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}"platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64outputs:
image: ${{ steps.build.outputs.image }}tag: ${{ steps.build.outputs.tag }}Tip
If omitted, cache-from and cache-to will default to gha.
In an AWS environment, we recommend using ECR as a remote cache.
- name: Build
id: build
uses: cloudposse/github-action-docker-build-push@main
with:
registry: registry.hub.docker.com
organization: "${{ github.event.repository.owner.login }}"
repository: "${{ github.event.repository.name }}"
+ cache-from: "type=registry,ref=registry.hub.docker.com/${{ github.event.repository.owner.login }}/${{ github.event.repository.name }}:cache"+ cache-to: "mode=max,image-manifest=true,oci-mediatypes=true,type=registry,ref=registry.hub.docker.com/${{ github.event.repository.owner.login }}/${{ github.event.repository.name }}:cache"| Name | Description | Default | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| allow | List of extra privileged entitlement (e.g., network.host,security.insecure) | N/A | false |
| binfmt-image | Binfmt image | public.ecr.aws/eks-distro-build-tooling/binfmt-misc:qemu-v7.0.0 | false |
| build-args | List of build-time variables | N/A | false |
| build-contexts | List of additional build contexts (e.g., name=path) | N/A | false |
| buildkitd-flags | BuildKit daemon flags | --allow-insecure-entitlement security.insecure --allow-insecure-entitlement network.host | false |
| cache-from | List of external cache sources for buildx (e.g., user/app:cache, type=local,src=path/to/dir) | type=gha | false |
| cache-to | List of cache export destinations for buildx (e.g., user/app:cache, type=local,dest=path/to/dir) | type=gha,mode=max | false |
| debug | Enable debug mode | false | false |
| docker-metadata-pr-head-sha | Set to true to tag images with the PR HEAD SHA instead of the merge commit SHA within pull requests. | false | false |
| driver-opts | List of additional driver-specific options. (eg. image=moby/buildkit:master) | image=mirror.gcr.io/moby/buildkit:buildx-stable-1 | false |
| file | Dockerfile name | Dockerfile | false |
| image_name | Image name (excluding registry). Defaults to {{$organization/$repository}}. | false | |
| inspect | Set to true will pull and inspect the image and output it. | false | false |
| login | Docker login | false | |
| network | Set the networking mode for the RUN instructions during build | N/A | false |
| no-cache | Send the --no-cache flag to the docker build process | false | false |
| organization | Organization | N/A | true |
| password | Docker password | false | |
| platforms | List of target platforms for build (e.g. linux/amd64,linux/arm64,linux/riscv64,linux/ppc64le,linux/s390x,etc) | linux/amd64 | false |
| provenance | Generate provenance attestation for the build | N/A | false |
| registry | Docker registry | N/A | true |
| repository | Repository | N/A | true |
| sbom | Generate SBOM attestation for the build | false | false |
| secret-files | List of secret files to expose to the build (e.g., key=filename, MY_SECRET=./secret.txt) | N/A | false |
| secrets | List of secrets to expose to the build (e.g., key=string, GIT_AUTH_TOKEN=mytoken) | N/A | false |
| ssh | List of SSH agent socket or keys to expose to the build | N/A | false |
| summary | Set to true will create step summary. | true | false |
| tags | List of tags (supports https://github.com/docker/metadata-action#tags-input) | N/A | false |
| target | Sets the target stage to build | false | |
| workdir | Working directory | ./ | false |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| digest | Docker image digest |
| image | Docker image name |
| inspect | Docker image inspect metadata |
| metadata | Docker image metadata |
| tag | Docker image tag |
Check out these related projects.
For additional context, refer to some of these links.
- github-actions-workflows - Reusable workflows for different types of projects
- example-github-action-release-workflow - Example application with complicated release workflow
This project is under active development, and we encourage contributions from our community.
Many thanks to our outstanding contributors:
For 🐛 bug reports & feature requests, please use the issue tracker.
In general, PRs are welcome. We follow the typical "fork-and-pull" Git workflow.
- Review our Code of Conduct and Contributor Guidelines.
- Fork the repo on GitHub
- Clone the project to your own machine
- Commit changes to your own branch
- Push your work back up to your fork
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