Feature: publish official docker images

[robert-heinzmann-logmein]

Currently there is no official docker image being published for mtail. A typical use case is running mtail next to an application as a sidecar to parse logs and publish the metrics.

It would be great to just use an upstream docker image that matches each version published and avoid setting up custom build pipelines. As this can be official images, build instructions as well as integrity can be ensured.

[jaqx0r]

We have a Dockerfile, if someone'd like to turn that into an official image then please send some PRs to build one in the GitHub Actions workflow as part of release.yml. But the main blocker to me at the moment is lack of understanding how to do it and on which container registry to send it to (as well as my aversion to keeping API keys around.)

[0xquark]

Hi @jaqx0r , I would like to take this issue. As i can see we already have a dockerfile and we need to set up a docker image with github actions so that it pushes it after every release?. Can we push the registry to Google Container Registry (GCR)?
( btw happy new year 🎉 )

[jaqx0r]

Go for it, send me some PRs :D

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[autokilla47]

is there any progress?

[raphaelzoellner]

I have created #710 to build and push a docker image to the GitHub Container Registry since this allows us to use the builtin GITHUB_TOKEN for authentication.

I followed the Github Actions Docs closely to achieve this.

[jaqx0r]

https://github.com/google/mtail/actions/runs/7813231439/job/21311943944 succeeded!