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Deploy a React app to DigitalOcean using Github Actions and Docker

Remy Muhire on April 06, 2020

At Pindo, we recently automated all our deployment processes by setting up continuous delivery pipelines for our repositories. This setup helped us...

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Christian Montero • Aug 25 '20

I' m getting an error in the deploy stage, this is the output:

======CMD======
docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
docker login docker.pkg.github.com -u $GITHUB_USERNAME -p $GITHUB_TOKEN
docker pull docker.pkg.github.com/fredomontero/bones/bones:latest
docker run -dit -p 3001:80 docker.pkg.github.com/fredomontero/bones/bones:latest
======END======
err: bash: line 2: docker: command not found
err: bash: line 2: docker: command not found
err: bash: line 3: docker: command not found
err: bash: line 4: docker: command not found

does anybody knows what' s wrong?

Remy Muhire • Aug 26 '20

Hi Christian, can you check if you have docker installed on your production server?

Christian Montero • Aug 26 '20

Hi Remy, thanks for answering I already solved, the issue was that I installed docker using snap, and reading on the web I realized that snap installs everything under /snap and that is not part of the environment variable PATH.

it was a little tricky because if I ssh from my local computer to the server and then run docker it works, but it didn't work from the yml file.

so instead of running docker I had to run /snap/bin/docker

or create a symlink:

sudo ln -s /snap/bin/docker /usr/bin/docker

Thank for this post bro it's very helpful!

Susheel Athmakuri • May 27 '20 • Edited

I am getting name unknown: The expected resource was not found. while publishing to the Github Package Registry.

LOG

Successfully built 831f744bab47
Successfully tagged docker.pkg.github.com/repo_name/image_name:latest
The push refers to repository [docker.pkg.github.com/repo_name/image_name]
d4c3bfb3f5d5: Preparing
3810cc0c140f: Preparing
3e207b409db3: Preparing
** name unknown: The expected resource was not found. **

DEPLOY FILE

name: build

on:
  push:
    branches: 
      - master

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - name: Use Node.js 13.10
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        node-version: '13.10'
    - name: Publish to Github Packages Registry
      uses: elgohr/Publish-Docker-Github-Action@master
      with:
        name: github_username/repo_name/image_name
        registry: docker.pkg.github.com
        username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME_GITHUB }}
        password: ${{ secrets.githubTokenSecret }}
        dockerfile: Dockerfile-prod

Not sure what the unknown thing is.

Remy Muhire • May 27 '20

Hi @athmakuri ,

You're not specifying your Github username, repository name, and the Docker image name github_username/repo_name/image_name. For example, my Github username is kenessajr and my repository name and docker image are both called react-with-actions, kenessajr/react-with-actions/react-with-actions. What you have to do is editing and specifying correctly your variables.

Susheel Athmakuri • May 28 '20 • Edited

Hi Remy, Thanks for your response. Here is the actual name that I have, susheelv/arc_recipe/recipecreator for which I am getting the error.

Deploy File

    - name: Publish to Github Packages Registry
      uses: elgohr/Publish-Docker-Github-Action@master
      with:
        name: susheelv/ARCRecipes/recipecreator
        registry: docker.pkg.github.com
        username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME_GITHUB }}
        password: ${{ secrets.githubTokenSecret }}
        dockerfile: Dockerfile-prod
        tags: latest

Error

Step 10/10 : CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]
 ---> Running in ec67f6ce496a
Removing intermediate container ec67f6ce496a
 ---> 3c2f28dbd026
Successfully built 3c2f28dbd026
Successfully tagged docker.pkg.github.com/***/arcrecipes/recipecreator:latest
The push refers to repository [docker.pkg.github.com/***/arcrecipes/recipecreator]
91f28809782e: Preparing
3810cc0c140f: Preparing
3e207b409db3: Preparing
name unknown: The expected resource was not found.

Susheel Athmakuri • May 28 '20

Nevermind. I had to use the organization's name instead of my personal username to create a package.

Dmitry • Jan 18 '21

Hey there, it's a nice deploy.yml file! One suggestion (from docker) is to use:
echo "$GITHUB_TOKEN" | docker login docker.pkg.github.com -u $GITHUB_USERNAME --password-stdin
instead of:
docker login docker.pkg.github.com -u $GITHUB_USERNAME -p $GITHUB_TOKEN
for the security reasons.

err: WARNING! Using -*** the CLI is insecure. Use --password-stdin.
err: WARNING! Your password will be stored unencrypted in /home/***/.docker/config.json.
err: Configure a credential helper to remove this warning. See
err: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/login/#credentials-store

Sadi Mahmud • May 1 '20 • Edited

Thanks for the article. I am having an issue here. Workflow is passed and done successfully but I have noticed the changes are not being reflected in digital ocean. Is this something related to caching of the docker package? Or are there any chances that docker package will not be updated with the latest code sometimes? Any dependencies related latest tag?

EDIT: have to use docker pull before running the docker.

Remy Muhire • May 11 '20

Hello Sady, I just realized that I forget to add docker pull for pulling new images.

Dave • Oct 18 '20

question: Wouldn't running Login + Pull first be a better choice to limit down time? And to prevent failure?

docker login docker.pkg.github.com -u $GITHUB_USERNAME -p $GITHUB_TOKEN docker pull docker.pkg.github.com/my_github_username/my_repository_name/my_image_name:latest docker stop $(docker ps -a -q) docker run -dit -p 80:80 docker.pkg.github.com/my_github_username/my_repository_name/my_image_name:latest

Eelco Verbrugge • Sep 21 '22

Many thanks! very helpfull. Everything went well until the "Deploy package to digitalocean" step in the build when I push my branch to Github. It says "Password change required but no TTY available.". I've tried resetting the root password of the droplet, but no success. Any idea?