GitHub to Dockerhub

Today I finally got the GitHub action that builds the spring-boot application, a docker container from the jar and then publishes it on Dockerhub to work.

The action came out looking something like this:

name: Docker

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:
      - "main"

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      -
        name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Set up JDK 17
        uses: actions/setup-java@v3
        with:
          java-version: '17'
          distribution: 'temurin'
          cache: maven
      - name: Build with Maven
        run: cd api && ./mvnw -B package        
      -
        name: Login to Docker Hub
        uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
      -
        name: Set up Docker Buildx
        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
      -
        name: Build and push
        uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
        with:
          context: ./api
          file: ./api/Dockerfile
          push: true
          tags: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}/tcapi:latest

One thing I’ve found is that simplifying and using hardcoded variables at first can be really useful in early development

I also started working on a docker-compose.yml so that it starts both the api-container and the mongodb-container.

A next step in the process would be to find something to store in the database to make sure the project has a working persistence layer.

The reason why I’m writing a docker-compose first is that I find it’s a very easy first step towards getting the containers to talk to each other. After that kubernetes has its own CLI-tool called kompose for translating docker-compose-files into a kubernetes project.

Another thing worth noting is that at this stage there are no environment variables or login details for the mongodb-container. That way I’m keeping it simple so that I won’t have any extra layer of security until I know everything else is working as it should.

There should probably be an issue in the GitHub-repo for that.

Here’s the initial docker-compose.yml by the way.


version: "3.8"

services:
  mongo_db:
    image: mongo:latest
    container_name: "mongodb"
    ports:
      - 27017:27017
    volumes:
      - db:/data/db
  tcapi:
    depends_on:
      - mongo_db
    image: tcarisland/tcapi:latest
    restart: on-failure
    ports:
      - 8081:8080
    volumes:
      - .m2:/root/.m2
    stdin_open: true
    tty: true

volumes:
  db:

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