Configure CI/CD for your Java application
Prerequisites
Complete the previous sections of this guide, starting with Containerize your app. You must have a GitHub account and a Docker account to complete this section.
Overview
In this section, you'll learn how to set up and use GitHub Actions to build and push your Docker image to Docker Hub. You will complete the following steps:
- Create a new repository on GitHub.
- Define the GitHub Actions workflow.
- Run the workflow.
Step one: Create the repository
Create a GitHub repository, configure the Docker Hub credentials, and push your source code.
Create a new repository on GitHub.
Open the repository Settings, and go to Secrets and variables > Actions.
Create a new Repository variable named
DOCKER_USERNAME
and your Docker ID as value.Create a new Personal Access Token (PAT) for Docker Hub. You can name this token
docker-tutorial
. Make sure access permissions include Read and Write.Add the PAT as a Repository secret in your GitHub repository, with the name
DOCKERHUB_TOKEN
.In your local repository on your machine, run the following command to change the origin to the repository you just created. Make sure you change
your-username
to your GitHub username andyour-repository
to the name of the repository you created.$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/your-username/your-repository.git
Run the following commands to stage, commit, and push your local repository to GitHub.
$ git add -A $ git commit -m "my commit" $ git push -u origin main
Step two: Set up the workflow
Set up your GitHub Actions workflow for building, testing, and pushing the image to Docker Hub.
Go to your repository on GitHub and then select the Actions tab. The project already has the
maven-build
workflow to build and test your Java application with Maven. If you want, you can optionally disable this workflow because you won't use it in this guide. You'll create a new, alternate workflow to build, test, and push your image.Select New workflow.
Select set up a workflow yourself.
This takes you to a page for creating a new GitHub actions workflow file in your repository, under
.github/workflows/main.yml
by default.In the editor window, copy and paste the following YAML configuration.
name: ci on: push: branches: - main jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Login to Docker Hub uses: docker/login-action@v3 with: username: ${{ vars.DOCKER_USERNAME }} password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }} - name: Set up Docker Buildx uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3 - name: Build and test uses: docker/build-push-action@v6 with: target: test load: true - name: Build and push uses: docker/build-push-action@v6 with: platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64 push: true target: final tags: ${{ vars.DOCKER_USERNAME }}/${{ github.event.repository.name }}:latest
For more information about the YAML syntax for
docker/build-push-action
, refer to the GitHub Action README.
Step three: Run the workflow
Save the workflow file and run the job.
Select Commit changes... and push the changes to the
main
branch.After pushing the commit, the workflow starts automatically.
Go to the Actions tab. It displays the workflow.
Selecting the workflow shows you the breakdown of all the steps.
When the workflow is complete, go to your repositories on Docker Hub.
If you see the new repository in that list, it means the GitHub Actions successfully pushed the image to Docker Hub.
Summary
In this section, you learned how to set up a GitHub Actions workflow for your application.
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Next steps
Next, learn how you can locally test and debug your workloads on Kubernetes before deploying.