github-actions

The core code base for Docker's GitHub Actions (https://github.com/features/actions). This code is used to build the docker/github-actions image that provides the functionality used by the published Docker GitHub Actions.

github-actions runs a command line tool that shells out to docker to perform the various functions. Parameters are supplied to github-actions using environment variables in the form described by the GitHub Actions documentation. github-actions uses some of the default GitHub Actions environment variables as described in the individual commands section.

Commands

Commands can be called using docker run docker/github-actions {command}

login

Does a docker login using the supplied username and password. Will default to Docker Hub but can be supplied a server address to login to a third-party registry as required.

inputs

Environment Variable	Required	Description
INPUT_USERNAME	yes	Username to login with
INPUT_PASSWORD	yes	Password to login with
INPUT_REGISTRY	no	Registry server to login to. Defaults to Docker Hub

build

Builds and tags a docker image.

inputs

Environment Variable	Required	Description
INPUT_PATH	yes	Path to build from
INPUT_DOCKERFILE	no	Path to Dockerfile
INPUT_ADD_GIT_LABELS	no	Adds git labels (see below)
INPUT_TARGET	no	Target build stage to build
INPUT_BUILD_ARGS	no	Comma-delimited list of build-args
INPUT_LABELS	no	Comma-delimited list of labels

See the tagging section for information on tag inputs

Git labels

When INPUT_ADD_GIT_LABELS is true labels are automatically added to the image that contain data about the current state of the git repo based on the standards set out in https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/master/annotations.md.

3 labels are supported:

Label	Description
org.opencontainers.image.created	Date and time on which the image was built (string, date-time as defined by RFC 3339).
org.opencontainers.image.source	URL to this repository. E.g. https://github.com/myorg/myrepository
org.opencontainers.image.revision	The full git sha of this commit.

push

Pushes a docker image.

inputs

See the tagging section for information on tag inputs

build-push

Builds, logs in, and pushes a docker image.

inputs

Same as the login and build commands with the addition of

Environment Variable	Required	Description
INPUT_PUSH	no	Will push the image if true

Tagging

Tagging of images can be set manually, left to github-actions to automate, or a combination of the both.

There are 4 input variables used for tagging

Environment Variable	Required	Description
INPUT_REGISTRY	no	Registry server to tag with
INPUT_REPOSITORY	yes	Repository to tag with
INPUT_TAGS	no	Hard coded comma-delimited list of tags
INPUT_TAG_WITH_REF	no	If true then github-actions will add tags depending on the git ref automatically as described below
INPUT_TAG_WITH_SHA	no	If true then github-actions will add a tag in the form sha-{git-short-sha}

If INPUT_REGISTRY is set then all tags are prefixed with {INPUT_REGISTRY}/{INPUT_REPOSITORY}:. If not then all tags are prefixed with {INPUT_REPOSITORY}:

Auto tags depend on the git reference that the run is associated with. The reference is passed to github-actions using the GitHub actions GITHUB_REF enviroment variable.

If the reference is refs/heads/{branch-name} then the tag {branch-name} is added. For the master branch the {branch-name} is replaced with latest.

If the reference is refs/pull/{pr} then the tag pr-{pr} is added.

If the reference is refs/tags/{tag-name} then the tag {tag-name} is added.

Any / in the auto tags are replaced with -.

For example if the environment variables are as follows:

Variable	Value
INPUT_REGISTRY
INPUT_REPOSITORY	myorg/myimage
INPUT_TAGS	foo,bar
INPUT_TAG_WITH_REF	true
GITHUB_REF	refs/tags/v0.1

Then the image will be tagged with:

myorg/myimage:foo
myorg/myimage:bar
myorg/myimage:v0.1

If the variables are as follows:

Variable	Value
INPUT_REGISTRY	myregistry
INPUT_REPOSITORY	myorg/myimage
INPUT_TAGS	foo,bar
INPUT_TAG_WITH_REF	true
INPUT_TAG_WITH_SHA	true
GITHUB_REF	refs/heads/master
GITHUB_SHA	c6df8c68eb

Then the image will be tagged with:

myregistry/myorg/myimage:foo
myregistry/myorg/myimage:bar
myregistry/myorg/myimage:lastest
myregistry/myorg/myimage:sha-c6df8c6

Building github-actions

The code is written in Go v1.13 with go mod. It can be built locally using the Makefile or in docker using the docker.Makefile.

make -f docker.Makefile will build the code, check the linting using golangci-lint, run the go tests, and build the image with a tag of docker/github-actions:latest

make -f docker.Makefile image will build the github-actions image without a tag and without running test or lint checking

make -f docker.Makefile cli will build the cli and copy it to ./bin/github-actions

make -f docker.Makefile test will run the unit and e2e tests