Portainer Stack Deploy

Portainer-stack-deploy is a GitHub Action for deploying a newly updated stack to a Portainer v2 instance. This action is useful when you have a continuous deployment pipeline. The action itself is inspired by how you deploy a task definition to Amazon ECS.

Currently works on Portainer API v2.

Action Inputs

Input	Description	Default
portainer-host	Portainer host, eg. https://myportainer.instance.com	Required
access-token	User access token for Portainer API. NOTE: Do not use access tokens for admin account! Create a new CI specific login instead	Required
swarm-id	ID of the swarm. Only required if you deploy to a swarm
endpoint-id	ID of the Portainer node to deploy to	1
stack-name	Name for the Portainer stack	Required
stack-definition	The path to the docker-compose stack stack definition file from repo root, eg. stack-definition.yml	Required
template-variables	If given, these variables will be replaced in docker-compose file by handlebars
image	The URI of the container image to insert into the stack definition, eg. ghcr.io/username/repo:sha-676cae2. Will use existing image inside stack definition if not provided

Example

The example below shows how the portainer-stack-deploy action can be used to deploy a fresh version of your app to Portainer using ghcr.io.

name: Deploy

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  deploy:
    name: Deploy
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 20

    env:
      GITHUB_REF: ${{ github.ref }}
      DOCKER_REGISTRY: ghcr.io
      DOCKER_IMAGE: github-username/my-awesome-web-app

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Creating envs
        run: |
          echo "IMAGE_TAG=sha-$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
          echo "DOCKER_IMAGE_URI=${{ env.DOCKER_REGISTRY }}/${{ env.DOCKER_IMAGE }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Login to GitHub Container Registry
        uses: docker/login-action@v1
        with:
          registry: ${{ env.DOCKER_REGISTRY }}
          username: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      - name: Build docker image and push
        uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
        with:
          context: .
          push: true
          tags: ${{ env.DOCKER_IMAGE_URI }}:${{ env.IMAGE_TAG }},${{ env.DOCKER_IMAGE_URI }}:latest

      - name: Sleep for 10 seconds
        run: sleep 10s
        shell: bash

      - name: Deploy stack to Portainer
        uses: dann41/portainer-stack-deploy@v1
        with:
          portainer-host: ${{ secrets.PORTAINER_HOST }}
          access-token: ${{ secrets.PORTAINER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          stack-name: 'my-awesome-web-app'
          stack-definition: 'stack-definition.yml'
          template-variables: '{"username": "MrCool"}'
          image: ${{ env.DOCKER_IMAGE_URI }}:${{ env.IMAGE_TAG }}

The stack-definition.yml file would be placed in the root of the repository and might look something like this:

version: '3.7'

services:
  server:
    image: ghcr.io/{{username}}/my-awesome-web-app:latest
    deploy:
      update_config:
        order: start-first

Development

Feel free contributing.

Running unit tests

npm test

Build, check linting, run tests

npm run all