I try to transfer my projects CI to GitHub Actions. For integration tests I need to start and access redis container. I am using info from this article. So code looks like this
build-artifacts: name: Build artifacts runs-on: ubuntu-latest services: redis: image: redis:3.2.12 ports: - 6379:6379 I can access redis using localhost:6379 but I can't access it using redis:6379. The article does not help. What I am doing wrong?
Thank you in advance.
So I figured out what was the problem. Docker network works only if you run your job inside container. And I had not.
Here is example https://github.com/actions/example-services/blob/989ef69ed164330bee413f11ce9332d76f943af7/.github/workflows/mongodb-service.yml#L19
And a quote:
runs all of the steps inside the specified container rather than on the VM host. Because of this the network configuration changes from host based network to a container network.
U need to host an external redis database because containers in GitHub Actions are isolated. For other hand u can prepare a docker container with all you need for testing and then u can run the tests inside.
Un can take a look here https://github.com/gonsandia/github-action-deploy Its a custom action where u define the dockerfile and the scripts to runs
