didd

Docker Integration & Docker Deployment

Summary

CICD with Docker via SSH

Basic Actions' Secrets Requirements

• SSH Key to access remote instance
• Remote Host IP (or EC2 DNS info)
• Remote Username

Actions Runner Workflow

1. Configure SSH login to remote instance
2. Pull in the latest repo changes
3. Stop existing docker containers
4. Remove altered/deleted images
5. Build/rebuild new/updated images
6. Build new containers
7. Clean up

Prerequisites

• Remote Instance with ability to pull repository
  • Repo will need to be cloned first
• Docker running on instance
• Git installed on instance
• Dockerfile must be in project's root folder

Note

• This is designed to use the GitHub provided runner
  • If you prefer a self-hosted runner, move the ssh config info to the runner's host
• Images are tagged with the project folder's name
• If the Dockerfile is removed, the associated image will be removed
• Included a workflow to manually re-deploy all running containers