Use the same image tags in CI and CD

.github/workflows/cd.yml

@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ jobs:
             prefix: ""
             image-id: standard
     timeout-minutes: 60
+    env:
+      CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID: "ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:${{ matrix.images.prefix }}latest"
+      CONTAINER_IMAGE_TARGET: "${{ matrix.images.target }}"
     steps:
       - name: Free Disk space
         shell: bash
@@ -55,11 +58,11 @@ jobs:
           secrets: |
             GITHUB_TOKEN=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           tags: |
-            ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:${{ matrix.images.prefix }}latest
+            ${{ env.CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID }}
           target: "${{ matrix.images.target }}"
 
       - name: Run Test Suite
-        run: make IMAGE=${{ matrix.images.target }} test
+        run: make test
 
       - name: Run Super-Linter Tests
         run: |
@@ -71,9 +74,7 @@ jobs:
           -e RENOVATE_SHAREABLE_CONFIG_PRESET_FILE_NAMES="default.json,hoge.json" \
           -e ERROR_ON_MISSING_EXEC_BIT=true \
           -v "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}:/tmp/lint" \
-          "ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:${tag}"
-        env:
-          tag: ${{ matrix.images.target }}
+          "${CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID}"
 
       - name: Lint Entire Codebase
         run: |
@@ -84,9 +85,7 @@ jobs:
           -e RENOVATE_SHAREABLE_CONFIG_PRESET_FILE_NAMES="default.json,hoge.json" \
           -e ERROR_ON_MISSING_EXEC_BIT=true \
           -v "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}:/tmp/lint" \
-          "ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:${tag}"
-        env:
-          tag: ${{ matrix.images.target }}
+          "${CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID}"
 
       - name: Login to GHCR
         uses: docker/login-action@v3.0.0
@@ -117,7 +116,7 @@ jobs:
           secrets: |
             GITHUB_TOKEN=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           tags: |
-            ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:${{ matrix.images.prefix }}latest
+            ${{ env.CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID }}
           target: "${{ matrix.images.target }}"
 
       - name: Update ${{ matrix.images.environment }} Deployment

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -18,9 +18,14 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         images:
-          - target: slim
-          - target: standard
+          - prefix: slim-
+            target: slim
+          - prefix: ""
+            target: standard
     timeout-minutes: 60
+    env:
+      CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID: "ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:${{ matrix.images.prefix }}latest"
+      CONTAINER_IMAGE_TARGET: "${{ matrix.images.target }}"
     steps:
       - name: Free Disk space
         shell: bash
@@ -34,7 +39,11 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
       - name: Update action.yml
-        run: yq '.runs.image = "docker://ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:${{ matrix.images.target }}"' -i action.yml
+        run: |
+          echo "yq version: $(yq --version)"
+          yq '.runs.image = env(CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID)' -i action.yml
+          echo "Action file contents:"
+          cat action.yml
 
       - name: Retrieve Datetime
         run: echo "BUILD_DATE=$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')" >> "${GITHUB_ENV}"
@@ -52,7 +61,8 @@ jobs:
           push: false
           secrets: |
             GITHUB_TOKEN=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          tags: ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:${{ matrix.images.target }}
+          tags: |
+            ${{ env.CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID }}
           target: "${{ matrix.images.target }}"
 
       - name: Test Local Action
@@ -67,7 +77,7 @@ jobs:
           RENOVATE_SHAREABLE_CONFIG_PRESET_FILE_NAMES: "default.json,hoge.json"
 
       - name: Run Test Suite
-        run: make IMAGE=${{ matrix.images.target }} test
+        run: make test
 
       - name: Run Super-Linter Tests
         run: |
@@ -79,9 +89,7 @@ jobs:
           -e RENOVATE_SHAREABLE_CONFIG_PRESET_FILE_NAMES="default.json,hoge.json" \
           -e ERROR_ON_MISSING_EXEC_BIT=true \
           -v "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}:/tmp/lint" \
-          "ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:${tag}"
-        env:
-          tag: ${{ matrix.images.target }}
+          "${CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID}"
 
       - name: Lint Entire Codebase
         run: |
@@ -92,6 +100,4 @@ jobs:
           -e RENOVATE_SHAREABLE_CONFIG_PRESET_FILE_NAMES="default.json,hoge.json" \
           -e ERROR_ON_MISSING_EXEC_BIT=true \
           -v "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}:/tmp/lint" \
-          "ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:${tag}"
-        env:
-          tag: ${{ matrix.images.target }}
+          "${CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID}"

Makefile

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Inspired by https://github.com/jessfraz/dotfiles
 
 .PHONY: all
-all: info test ## Run all targets.
+all: info docker test ## Run all targets.
 
 .PHONY: test
-test: info clean inspec kcov prepare-test-reports ## Run tests
+test: inspec ## Run tests
 
 # if this session isn't interactive, then we don't want to allocate a
 # TTY, which would fail, but if it is interactive, we do want to attach
@@ -22,40 +22,6 @@ info: ## Gather information about the runtime environment
 	docker images; \
 	docker ps
 
-.PHONY: kcov
-kcov: ## Run kcov
-	docker run --rm $(DOCKER_FLAGS) \
-		--user "$$(id -u)":"$$(id -g)" \
-		-v "$(CURDIR)":/workspace \
-		-w="/workspace" \
-		kcov/kcov \
-		kcov \
-		--bash-parse-files-in-dir=/workspace \
-		--clean \
-		--exclude-pattern=.coverage,.git \
-		--include-pattern=.sh \
-		/workspace/test/.coverage \
-		/workspace/test/runTests.sh
-
-COBERTURA_REPORTS_DESTINATION_DIRECTORY := "$(CURDIR)/test/reports/cobertura"
-
-.PHONY: prepare-test-reports
-prepare-test-reports: ## Prepare the test reports for consumption
-	mkdir -p $(COBERTURA_REPORTS_DESTINATION_DIRECTORY); \
-	COBERTURA_REPORTS="$$(find "$$(pwd)" -name 'cobertura.xml')"; \
-	for COBERTURA_REPORT_FILE_PATH in $$COBERTURA_REPORTS ; do \
-		COBERTURA_REPORT_DIRECTORY_PATH="$$(dirname "$$COBERTURA_REPORT_FILE_PATH")"; \
-		COBERTURA_REPORT_DIRECTORY_NAME="$$(basename "$$COBERTURA_REPORT_DIRECTORY_PATH")"; \
-		COBERTURA_REPORT_DIRECTORY_NAME_NO_SUFFIX="$${COBERTURA_REPORT_DIRECTORY_NAME%.*}"; \
-		mkdir -p "$(COBERTURA_REPORTS_DESTINATION_DIRECTORY)"/"$$COBERTURA_REPORT_DIRECTORY_NAME_NO_SUFFIX"; \
-		cp "$$COBERTURA_REPORT_FILE_PATH" "$(COBERTURA_REPORTS_DESTINATION_DIRECTORY)"/"$$COBERTURA_REPORT_DIRECTORY_NAME_NO_SUFFIX"/cobertura.xml; \
-	done
-
-.PHONY: clean
-clean: ## Clean the workspace
-	rm -rf $(CURDIR)/test/.coverage; \
-	rm -rf $(CURDIR)/test/reports
-
 .PHONY: help
 help: ## Show help
 	@grep -E '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | sort | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
@@ -71,25 +37,26 @@ inspec-check: ## Validate inspec profiles
 		test/inspec/super-linter
 
 SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME := "super-linter-test"
-SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTINER_URL := ''
+SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_URL := $(CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID)
 DOCKERFILE := ''
-IMAGE := ''
-ifeq ($(IMAGE),slim)
-	SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTINER_URL := "ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:slim"
-	IMAGE := "slim"
-else
-	SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTINER_URL := "ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:standard"
-	IMAGE := "standard"
+IMAGE := $(CONTAINER_IMAGE_TARGET)
+
+# Default to stadard
+ifeq ($(IMAGE),)
+IMAGE := "standard"
+endif
+
+# Default to latest
+ifeq ($(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_URL),)
+SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_URL := "ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:latest"
 endif
 
 .PHONY: inspec
 inspec: inspec-check ## Run InSpec tests
-	LOCAL_IMAGE="$$(docker images $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTINER_URL) |grep 'ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter')"; \
-	if [ "$$?" -ne 0 ]; then docker build -t $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTINER_URL) -f Dockerfile .; fi && \
-	DOCKER_CONTAINER_STATE="$$(docker inspect --format "{{.State.Running}}" "$(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME)" 2>/dev/null || echo "")"; \
-	if [ "$$DOCKER_CONTAINER_STATE" = "true" ]; then docker kill "$(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME)"; fi && \
-	docker tag $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTINER_URL) $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME) && \
-	SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_ID="$$(docker run -d --name "$(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME)" --rm -it --entrypoint /bin/ash "$(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME)" -c "while true; do sleep 1; done")" \
+	DOCKER_CONTAINER_STATE="$$(docker inspect --format "{{.State.Running}}" $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME) 2>/dev/null || echo "")"; \
+	if [ "$$DOCKER_CONTAINER_STATE" = "true" ]; then docker kill $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME); fi && \
+	docker tag $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_URL) $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME) && \
+	SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_ID="$$(docker run -d --name $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME) --rm -it --entrypoint /bin/ash $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME) -c "while true; do sleep 1; done")" \
 	&& docker run $(DOCKER_FLAGS) \
 		--rm \
 		-v "$(CURDIR)":/workspace \
@@ -102,14 +69,18 @@ inspec: inspec-check ## Run InSpec tests
 		--log-level=debug \
 		-t "docker://$${SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_ID}" \
 	&& docker ps \
-	&& docker kill "$(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME)"
+	&& docker kill $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_NAME)
 
 .phony: docker
-docker:
+docker: ## Build the container image
 	@if [ -z "${GITHUB_TOKEN}" ]; then echo "GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable not set. Please set your GitHub Personal Access Token."; exit 1; fi
 	DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker buildx build --load \
 		--build-arg BUILD_DATE=$(shell date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ') \
 		--build-arg BUILD_REVISION=$(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD) \
 		--build-arg BUILD_VERSION=$(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD) \
 		--secret id=GITHUB_TOKEN,env=GITHUB_TOKEN \
-		-t ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter .
+		-t $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_URL) .
+
+.phony: docker-pull
+docker-pull: ## Pull the container image from registry
+	docker pull $(SUPER_LINTER_TEST_CONTAINER_URL)

docs/run-linter-locally.md

@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ If you want to test locally against the **Super-Linter** to test your branch of
 - Clone your testing source code to your local environment
 - Install Docker to your local environment
 - Pull the container down
-- Run the container
-- Debug/Troubleshoot
+- Run the container locally
+- Run the test suite locally
+- Troubleshoot
 
 ## Install Docker to your local machine
 
@@ -97,6 +98,30 @@ jobs:
           DEFAULT_BRANCH: develop
 ```
 
+## Build the container image and run the test suite locally
+
+You can run the test suite locally with the following command:
+
+```shell
+make
+```
+
+The test suite will build the container image and run the test suite against a
+a container that is an instance of that container image.
+
+### Run the test suite against an arbitrary super-linter container image
+
+You can run the test suite against an arbitrary super-linter container image.
+
+Here is an example that runs the test suite against the `standard` flavor of the
+`v5.4.3` image.
+
+```shell
+CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID="ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:v5.4.3" \
+CONTAINER_IMAGE_TARGET="standard" \
+make docker-pull test
+```
+
 ## Troubleshooting
 
 ### Run container and gain access to the command-line