ARCHIVED

I recently started working again with Github Actions and given the fact that I needed to send build arguments and secrets to the Dockerfile I started to look at all the alternatives available as those are not supported in this repo.

I found that the docker/build-push-action works for pushing into the GHCR as well, so what was the biggest benefit of this action is now taken care somewhere else with more features and mainteinance. Therefore I suggest that you switch over to that one, I leave below a little snippet on how I used the action:

- name: Set up Docker Buildx
  uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3

- name: Login to GHCR
  uses: docker/login-action@v3
  with:
    registry: ghcr.io/my-org
    username: ${{ github.actor }}
    password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

- name: Build and push
  uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
  with:
    push: true
    tags: |
      ghcr.io/my-org/my-svc:latest
      ghcr.io/my-org/my-svc:some-tag
    build-args: |
      "x=y"
      "foo=bar"
    secrets: |
      "secret-id=${{secrets.SECRET_VALUE}}"

GitHub Container Registry : Build and push

Github Action that builds and pushes a docker image to Github Container Registry.

Example

jobs:
  build-svc:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        name: Checkout repository

      - uses: pmorelli92/github-container-registry-build-push@2.2.1
        name: Build and Publish latest service image
        with:
          github-push-secret: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
          docker-image-name: my-svc
          docker-image-tag: latest # optional
          dockerfile-path: Dockerfile # optional
          build-context: . # optional
          build-only: false # optional
          docker-build-args: FOO=BAR,OTHER=VALUE # optional

Inspirations and acknowledgments

I heavily inspired on gp-docker-action repository made by Pavel Alimpiev. This mentioned repo is pushing towards the GitHub Packages Docker Registry instead of the new GitHub Container Registry.

More information on the new Github Container Registry here.