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Vincent A. Cicirello
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pyaction pulled 4 million times and counting from the GitHub Container Registry

I have been maintaining, pyaction, which is a Docker container with Python, git, and the GitHub CLI. Recently, pyaction surpassed 4 million pulls from the GitHub Container Registry.

pyaction pulled 4 million times

The pyaction container was originally developed to support developing GitHub Actions in Python. There are several GitHub container actions that use pyaction as the base image, and specifically pull it from the GitHub Container Registry. So this likely represents over 4 million runs of those dependent Actions. It is also available from Docker Hub.

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A Docker container with Python, git, and the Github CLI

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pyaction - A Docker container with Python, git, and the GitHub CLI

Website for our GitHub Actions and tools for developing them: https://actions.cicirello.org/

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This Docker image is designed to support implementing Github Actions with Python. As of version 4.0.0., it starts with the official python docker image as the base which is a Debian OS. It specifically uses python:3-slim to keep the image size down for faster loading of Github Actions that use pyaction. On top of the base, we've installed curl, gpg, git, and the GitHub CLI. We added curl and gpg because they are needed to install the GitHub CLI, and they may come in handy anyway (especially curl) when implementing a GitHub Action.

Blog Post on DEV: pyaction: A Docker container with Python, git, and the GitHub CLI, posted on December 28, 2022. See a list of additional blog posts later in this…

For more information about pyaction, see my earlier post here on DEV, as well as an information page about pyaction on the web.

pyaction - A Docker container with Python, git, and the Github CLI

The pyaction Docker container is designed to support implementing Github Actions with Python. It starts with the official python slim docker image as the base, using slim to keep the image size down for faster loading of Github Actions that use pyaction. The pyaction container also includes curl, gpg, git, and the GitHub CLI.

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