So right now our organization is using portainer to get the last container from DOCR repository, edit it and push it back.
The thing is when we need to edit something quickly, we would just edit it on the deployed instance, meaning if the node-red crashes all of the changes are gone.
So i looked in to projects, and how we can utilize one node-red instance (running projects) to be able to edit all of the deployed instances. And figured out i can use the Gh Actions to compile our flows & other stuff to a docker image and send it off to DOCR.
This is the deploy.yaml file i came up with:
name: Deploy Node-RED
on:
push:
branches:
- main
env:
DOCKER_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}
DOCKER_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }}
jobs:
deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout code
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Login to Docker registry
run: echo $DOCKER_PASSWORD | docker login registry.digitalocean.com -u $DOCKER_USERNAME --password-stdin
- name: Get Docker image
run: |
docker pull nodered/node-red:latest
- name: Build and push Docker image
run: |
# Extract the base image into a container
docker run -d --name temp-container nodered/node-red:latest
docker cp package.json temp-container:/data/package.json
docker cp flows.json temp-container:/data/flows.json
docker cp flows_cred.json temp-container:/data/flows_cred.json
docker cp settings.js temp-container:/data/settings.js
# Build the new image using the modified Node-RED data directory
docker commit temp-container registry.digitalocean.com/lsolutions/node-red-ec-scraping:latest
docker images -a
# Push the image to the registry
docker push registry.digitalocean.com/lsolutions/node-red-ec-scraping:latest
# Clean up the temporary directory
docker stop temp-container
rm -rf temp
Is this a good way of doing this? Just finished the file and didn't had time to test it out using any community nodes?
Wanted to use Github packages registry, but i can't use any other registries in Digital ocean ,except theirs and DockerHub's.
Also please suggest a new name for this topic so anyone who needs this can find it easily. Thank you!
