github_packages.md

Github packages setup

GitHub Packages is a package management service, fully integrated with GitHub. It allows you to host your software packages, publicly or privately, for use within your projects on GitHub. i'll use it to store Docker images. Process summarized below can be found here

Create a personal access token

Within the developer settings click Personal access tokens then click on Generate new token. Provide a descriptive note and select the following scopes

1. write:packages
2. read:packages
3. delete:packages
4. workflow

Copy the generated token

Save your PAT as an environment variable

$ export CR_PAT=YOUR_TOKEN

Sign in to the Container registry service at ghcr.io

$ echo $CR_PAT | docker login ghcr.io -u DanNduati --password-stdin
> Login Succeeded

Build and tag the image

$ docker build -f project/Dockerfile.prod -t ghcr.io/dandduati/jokes_api/jokesapi:latest ./project

Push the image to the Container registry on Github Packages

$ docker push ghcr.io/dannduati/jokes_api/jokesapi:latest
The push refers to repository [ghcr.io/dannduati/jokes_api/jokesapi]
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You should be able to see the package at the following URL: