Use without release?

[flemzord]

Hello

We have been using Goreleaser to manage our releases for several months.
However, we have a second process to build docker images and binaries for each commit on main or pull requests
We would like to integrate this into Goreleaser and have only one tool

Any idea how to do this?

Regards
Maxence

[caarlos0]

if you don't want to publish the generated artifacts anywhere, check goreleaser releaser --help, specifically the --snapshot option

[flemzord]

The release mode with --snapshot works well. But I would need to push the binaries / Docker images to their registry.
Today with --snapshot, it will fetch the last tag.

[caarlos0]

In that case, you'd probably would need to use the nightlies feature: https://goreleaser.com/customization/nightlies/

[tebruno99]

I keep a 2nd goreleaser config file. $project_dir/.goreleaser.ecr.yml.

I then use this goreleaser config with

..
builds:
...
..
release:
 disable: true
dockers:
...
..
..

This allows us to do the build, build the docker images and upload them to AWS ECR without publishing to the GitHub Releases for this build.

We still release/build by tags though because thats how go versioning works best.