MemeLord79 is a Meme Lord bent on posting images to Slack. Originally, the application was going to only be built into Github's Actions, but then I changed my mind because a lot of prepwork needs to be done in the container to save on time, so I might as well just use Go and package it into a stratch container.
One of the thing that I've noticed, is that at the time of writing the application is slightly bigger than I'd like it to be, and I'm wondering if using another language could shrink down my footprint so the container gets loaded into actions faster to save on build minutes. Another thing to contend with is that we need to run this as fast as possible, so that way we don't take up build minutes.
go-get is smaller than regular git. It increases the code footprint, but decreases the container size in the end.
MemeLord79 uses git as a datastore of sorts to persist data from one call to the next. I likely can get away without needing to do this, but I felt like it was a neat thing to do, plus it should help reduce the amount of times I need to call Reddit's API as I can easily cache the results.
Specify the repository to use with the env MEMELORD_GIT_REPO
Generate an RSA keypair.
Put the public key in the git repo's deploy token section, and enable "Allow write access". This will allow MemeLord to use the git repository and use the "state" branch as a pseudo database.
The private key should be in the env MEMELORD_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY
The docker image provided will build using alpine, and then use scratch as the running image. UPX is used to make the binary smaller, and to help with making the docker container more compact and faster to move across the wire.