docker-metadata-action/README.md

About

GitHub Action to extract metadata (tags, labels) for Docker. This action is particularly useful if used with Docker Build Push action.

If you are interested, check out my other :octocat: GitHub Actions!

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• Features
• Usage
• Customizing
  • inputs
  • outputs
• Keep up-to-date with GitHub Dependabot
• How can I help?
• License

Features

• Docker tags generated through GitHub action event and Git metadata
• OCI Image Format Specification used to generate Docker labels

Usage

Event	Ref	Commit SHA	Docker Tag	Pushed
schedule			nightly	Yes
pull_request	refs/pull/2/merge	a123b57	sha-a123b57, pr-2	No
push	refs/heads/<default_branch>	676cae2	sha-676cae2, edge	Yes
push	refs/heads/dev	cf20257	sha-cf20257, dev	Yes
push	refs/heads/my/branch	a5df687	sha-a5df687, my-branch	Yes
push tag	refs/tags/v1.2.3		1.2.3, latest	Yes
push tag	refs/tags/mytag		mytag	Yes

name: ci

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 10 * * *' # everyday at 10am
  push:
    branches:
      - '**'
    tags:
      - 'v*.*.*'
  pull_request:

jobs:
  docker:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      -
        name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      -
        name: Docker meta
        id: docker_meta
        uses: crazy-max/ghaction-docker-meta@v1
        with:
          images: |
            name/app
            ghcr.io/name/app            
          tag-sha: true
      -
        name: Set up QEMU
        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v1
      -
        name: Set up Docker Buildx
        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v1
      -
        name: Login to DockerHub
        if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
        uses: docker/login-action@v1 
        with:
          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
      -
        name: Build and push
        uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
        with:
          context: .
          file: ./Dockerfile
          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64,linux/386
          push: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
          tags: ${{ steps.docker_meta.outputs.tags }}
          labels: ${{ steps.docker_meta.outputs.labels }}

Customizing

inputs

Following inputs can be used as step.with keys

Name	Type	Description
images	List/CSV	List of Docker images to use as base name for tags
tag-sha	Bool	Add git short SHA as Docker tag (default false)
tag-edge	String	Branch that will be tagged as edge (default ${{ repo.default_branch }}
sep-tags	String	Separator to use for tags output (default \n)
sep-labels	String	Separator to use for labels output (default \n)

List/CSV type can be a newline or comma delimited string

outputs

Following outputs are available

Name	Type	Description
version	String	Generated Docker image version
tags	String	Generated Docker tags
labels	String	Generated Docker labels

Keep up-to-date with GitHub Dependabot

Since Dependabot has native GitHub Actions support, to enable it on your GitHub repo all you need to do is add the .github/dependabot.yml file:

version: 2
updates:
  # Maintain dependencies for GitHub Actions
  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "daily"

How can I help?

All kinds of contributions are welcome 🙌! The most basic way to show your support is to star 🌟 the project, or to raise issues 💬 You can also support this project by becoming a sponsor on GitHub 👏 or by making a Paypal donation to ensure this journey continues indefinitely! 🚀

Thanks again for your support, it is much appreciated! 🙏

License

MIT. See LICENSE for more details.