Automating Podman and GHCR with GitHub Actions

Streamline Your CI/CD Pipeline: Automating Podman and GHCR with GitHub Actions

Automate your CI/CD pipeline with Podman, GHCR, and GitHub Actions for efficient container management

In the previous Blog:

Using GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) with Podman: A Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction

Manually building and pushing container images can be tedious. In this final part of the series, we’ll explore how to use GitHub Actions to automate container builds and deployments to GHCR, creating a streamlined CI/CD pipeline.

What You’ll Learn

1. How GitHub Actions simplify container workflows.
2. Writing a GitHub Actions workflow to build and push images.
3. Key advantages of automated CI/CD with Podman and GHCR.

GitHub Actions Workflow Example

File: .github/workflows/podman-ghcr.yml

This workflow builds and pushes images to GHCR whenever changes are pushed to the main branch.

name: Build and Push to GHCR
on:  
  push:  
    branches:  
      - main

jobs:  
  build-and-push…