SweetOps #github-actions for June, 2020

Discussions related to GitHub Actions

2020-06-05

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

https://github.community/t/github-actions-new-pulling-from-private-docker-repositories/16089

Github Actions (new) Pulling from private docker repositories

Hi All, I have been playing around with github actions for a around a day now and was wondering how to deal with pulling from private docker repositories for example google cloud container registry. I am trying to pull from a repo like so - name: Download Cache uses: <docker://gcr.io/[Project> ID]/cache I have authenticated in a step above using a service account however in the github actions workflow it prefers to try and pull all of the docker images before running any of the steps. …

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

03:27:39 AM

Pretty silly. GitHub provides a “public” Docker registry. Or so they say. You have to Docker login to access it. GitHub actions only support pulling public images, only it can’t pull them from the “public” GitHub Docker registry.