create container image in ghcr.io for easy deployment using github actions
larrycai opened this issue · 7 comments
Description
Most of the opensource project now provides container (docker) image for easy deployment, as stated in #70, it saves the time to prepare the environment. (podman is another popular container engine)�
$ podman run -it -p 8080:8080 -p 4443:4443 lorserker/ben
Technical
we just need to tag (or branch) to trigger the auto build and publish, so it has version on
lorserker/ben->lorserker/ben:latestlorserker/ben:0.1.0-> version 0.1.0 using git tag0.1.0
FAQ
- why not use docker hub?
- they have download limits, ghcr.io is more popular now
- can docker/podman and kubernetes use this container image?
- Yes, it is standard container image.
- does it support for windows & mac besides linux
- default is x86/linux, for other platform, it is different format, may needs extra efforts ($)
- docker vs podman
- they are both container engine, almost the same for our case.
so far it is https://github.com/larrycai/ben/blob/main/.github/workflows/docker-image.yml (generate ghcr.io/larrycai/ben:release) , triggered on branch, needs to change to tag. After that, I will create PR for it.
Nice work. Looking forward to the PR
Please add information about how to stop the container, when no longer needed.
Oops, after a while, I noticed it was quite expensive for ghcr.io (our container image will be 3G at least)
need switch to https://hub.docker.com/ (then it has account issue again)
- larrycai/ben
- lorserker/ben ( i can maintain it)
<any org>/ben- ..
pause it for a while
seems free for opensource porject
GitHub Packages usage is free for public packages
Nice, it works like below, triggered by tag (schema is vx.x.x )
Release: https://github.com/larrycai/ben/releases
Then the related container image has correct tag as well (only apply latest to released version)
Package: https://github.com/larrycai/ben/pkgs/container/ben
looks perfect !