Github Actions instead of Dockerhub automated builds

As you may heared Dockerhub has cancelled automated builds for free Accounts. They described the reasons in this Blog Post:

Mostly they had problems with People abusing their automated build system for mining cryptocurrencies.

I loved the automated builds, because they made it very easy to deploy applications fast. But now i have to use something else because i don´t use the Dockerhub Premium Functions as much as it would be worth it.

So what are the alternatives? This is a short list of alternatives you have:

• Build with Github Actions and push to Dockerhub
• Use your own CI and push to Dockerhub
• Use CI and push it to your own Repository Managment System
• ...

And as the title allready uncovered whe will cover the first point today. So how to set this up?

• First, of cause, create a Repository on Github
• Push your Code to this Repository

Now create a Dockerfile in your Repository. You can use the Dockerfile Reference to build your Dockerfile.

Add it to your Repository:

git add .
git commit -m "Add Dockerfile"

Head over to Dockerhub and open your Account Settings.

Go to Security and create a new Access Token. But Attention! On free Plan you can only create one Access Token so make sure to save this for future projects.

Head over to Github and open your Repository.

Go to -> Setting -> Secrets

And add following Secrets:

Name: DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME
Content: Your Dockerhub username

Name: DOCKER_HUB_ACCESS_TOKEN
Content: The previosly generated Access Token

Now go back to your Repository and create at your project root following folder structure:

• .github
  • workflows
    • dockerhub.yaml

And in the dockerhub.yaml add following:

# Name of the Workflow
name: Push to Dockerhub
# Only push for commits on master branch
# Remove this if you want to publish on every branch
on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]
jobs:
 push-to-dockerhub:
    # You can change this if you want to build on an other image
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Login to DockerHub
        uses: docker/login-action@v1
        with:
          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_HUB_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Build and push
        id: docker_build
        uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
        with:
          context: ./
        # Change filename here if Dockerfile is other than Dockerfile
          file: ./Dockerfile
          push: true
        # Change this to the Dockerhub repo you want to push your image to
          tags: username/repo:latest
        # Can be removed if digest not needed
      - name: Image digest
        run: echo ${{ steps.docker_build.outputs.digest }}

Now commit everything:

git add .
git commit -m "Add Push to Dockerhub workflow"

Head over to your Github Repo and go to Actions Tab.

Here you will see now a new Action that was created and is building now. If everything worked correctly you should be now able to head over to Dockerhub and check if your docker image was pushed correctly.