New location of docker actions

Question

I was using this for docker:

- name: Build container image
  uses: actions/docker/cli@master
  with:
    ///// removed

- name: Docker Login
  uses: actions/docker/login@master
  env:
    ///// removed

However github.com/actions/docker do not seem to exist anymore.

My builds are giving 404:

Failed to download action 'https://api.github.com/repos/actions/docker/tarball/master'. Error Response status code does not indicate success: 404 (Not Found).

Does anyone know the new location?

Answer 1

The actions/docker action has now been deprecated. The repository was archived with the following message before being deleted entirely.

This action is deprecated in favor of using the run script step in the new YAML language to run the docker cli.

So the recommended way to use Docker is to use the run script command. The official starter workflow shows a simple example to build an image. https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows/blob/master/ci/docker-image.yml

For more complete examples of Docker image publishing see the following workflows.

For the public DockerHub registry:

name: my workflow
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Login to DockerHub Registry
        run: echo ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }} | docker login -u ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }} --password-stdin
      - name: Build the Docker image
        run: docker build -t myimage:latest .
      - name: Tag the Docker image
        run: docker tag myimage:latest myimage:1.0
      - name: Push the Docker image to the registry
        run: docker push myimage:1.0

For a private registry, such as the new GitHub Package Registry, you also need to specify the hostname when logging in and tag the image appropriately:

name: my workflow
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Login to GitHub Package Registry
        run: echo ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} | docker login docker.pkg.github.com -u ${{ github.repository }} --password-stdin
      - name: Build the Docker image
        run: docker build -t myimage:latest .
      - name: Tag the Docker image
        run: docker tag myimage:latest docker.pkg.github.com/username/repository/myimage:1.0
      - name: Push the Docker image to the registry
        run: docker push docker.pkg.github.com/username/repository/myimage:1.0