Here is a comprehensive image of what we are going to implement.

I am trying to use github actions to automate docker builds when a trigger to main branch happens. And also a correct and sustainable tagging has implemented by both the tag with hash and a latest tag.

Therefore I have write the github workflow file like below.

1. Clone this repository.
2. Run npm install at the directory of nodeapp
3. Run node index.js to test the project.
4. Inspect the Dockerfile and build it locally first docker build -t node-app .
5. Then run and test it locally docker run -d -p 3000:3000 node-app
6. Then inspect the build.yaml file and make sure to set DOCKERHUB_USERNAME and DOCKERHUB_TOKEN in the secrets section of github project.
7. Make sure to create the token by logging at dokerhub and replace the DOCKERHUB_TOKEN by it.
8. Finally replace the kalharacodes/node-app with relavant to your repository created in dockerhub.
9. Push the code to github and check for status!

Here is the magic, the workflow file which automates all these things.

name: Build and Push Docker image to Docker Hub on: push jobs: push_to_registry: name: Push Docker image to Docker Hub runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Check out the repo uses: actions/checkout@v3 - name: Login to Docker Hub uses: docker/login-action@v2 with: username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }} password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }} - name: Set short SHA id: vars run: echo "SHORT_SHA=$(echo ${{ github.sha }} | cut -c1-7)" >> $GITHUB_ENV - name: Build and push Docker image uses: docker/build-push-action@v4 with: context: ./ push: true tags: | {DockerHubUserName/repoName}:${{ env.SHORT_SHA }} {DockerHubUserName/repoName}:latest 

Feel free to play and learn github actions. Explore your own journey! A project by Tharindu Kalhara