github-action-create-ecr-repo-if-missing

A GitHub Action for creating AWS ECR repositories

Usage

on: push
# ...
jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      # ...
      - name: Configure AWS credentials
        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
        with:
          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_KEY }}
          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET }}
          aws-region: us-west-2
      - name: Log into Amazon ECR
        uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecr-login@v1
      - name: Create ECR repo if missing
        uses: byu-oit/github-action-create-ecr-repo-if-missing@v2
        with:
          DOCKER_REPO_NAME: ${{ env.REPO }} # Your repo name goes here
      # ...

Or for a more complicated example, if you want to retain a certain number of tagged images...

on: push
# ...
jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      # ...
      - name: Configure AWS credentials
        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
        with:
          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_KEY }}
          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET }}
          aws-region: us-west-2
      - name: Log into Amazon ECR
        uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecr-login@v1
      - name: Create ECR repo if missing
        uses: byu-oit/github-action-create-ecr-repo-if-missing@v2
        with:
          DOCKER_REPO_NAME: ${{ env.REPO }} # Your repo name goes here
          NUM_DAYS_BEFORE_EXPIRING_UNTAGGED_IMAGES: 14
          TAG_PREFIX: 'dev-v'
          NUM_TAGGED_IMAGES_TO_RETAIN: 5
      # ...

Contributing

Hopefully this is useful to others at BYU. Feel free to ask me some questions about it, but I make no promises about being able to commit time to support it.

Modifying Source Code

Just run npm install locally. There aren't many files here, so hopefully it should be pretty straightforward.

Cutting new releases

GitHub Actions will run the entry point from the action.yml. In our case, that happens to be /dist/index.js.

Actions run from GitHub repos. We don't want to check in node_modules. Hence, we package the app using npm run package.

Then, be sure to create a new GitHub release, following SemVer.