GitLab CI yaml file for building docker images

.gitlab-ci.yml

# This is a GitLab CI configuration to build the project as a docker image
# The file is generic enough to be dropped in a project containing a working Dockerfile
# Author: Florent CHAUVEAU <[email protected]>
# Mentioned here: https://blog.callr.tech/building-docker-images-with-gitlab-ci-best-practices/

# do not use "latest" here, if you want this to work in the future
image: docker:20

stages:
  - build
  - push

variables:
  # fill those if you have a proxy in your environment
  http_proxy: ""
  https_proxy: ""
  no_proxy: ""

# Use this if your GitLab runner does not use socket binding
# services:
#   - docker:dind

before_script:
  # docker login asks for the password to be passed through stdin for security
  # we use $CI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD here which is a special variable provided by GitLab
  # https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/variables/predefined_variables.html
  - echo -n $CI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD | docker login -u $CI_REGISTRY_USER --password-stdin $CI_REGISTRY

Build:
  stage: build
  script:
    # fetches the latest image (not failing if image is not found)
    - docker pull $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:latest || true
    # builds the project, passing proxy variables, using OCI labels
    # notice the cache-from, which is going to use the image we just pulled locally
    # the built image is tagged locally with the commit SHA, and then pushed to 
    # the GitLab registry
    - >
      docker build
      --pull
      --build-arg http_proxy=$http_proxy
      --build-arg https_proxy=$https_proxy
      --build-arg no_proxy=$no_proxy
      --cache-from $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:latest
      --label "org.opencontainers.image.title=$CI_PROJECT_TITLE"
      --label "org.opencontainers.image.url=$CI_PROJECT_URL"
      --label "org.opencontainers.image.created=$CI_JOB_STARTED_AT"
      --label "org.opencontainers.image.revision=$CI_COMMIT_SHA"
      --label "org.opencontainers.image.version=$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME"
      --tag $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_SHA
      .
    - docker push $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_SHA

# Here, the goal is to tag the "master" branch as "latest"
Push latest:
  variables:
    # We are just playing with Docker here. 
    # We do not need GitLab to clone the source code.
    GIT_STRATEGY: none
  stage: push
  only:
    # Only "master" should be tagged "latest"
    - master
  script:
    # Because we have no guarantee that this job will be picked up by the same runner 
    # that built the image in the previous step, we pull it again locally
    - docker pull $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_SHA
    # Then we tag it "latest"
    - docker tag $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_SHA $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:latest
    # Annnd we push it.
    - docker push $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:latest

# Finally, the goal here is to Docker tag any Git tag
# GitLab will start a new pipeline everytime a Git tag is created, which is pretty awesome
Push tag:
  variables:
    # Again, we do not need the source code here. Just playing with Docker.
    GIT_STRATEGY: none
  stage: push
  only:
    # We want this job to be run on tags only.
    - tags
  script:
    - docker pull $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_SHA
    - docker tag $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_SHA $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME
    - docker push $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME

Hi!

Is this still work?

I'm trying something similar, but I have some docker login issues:
Error: Cannot perform an interactive login from a non TTY device

This happens when one of the variable is not defined. I have updated the gist, try with $CI_REGISTRY_USER and $CI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD.

Thanks. Sorry, I should have commented again. I made it work on my side as well.

Thanks for your reply

I am wondering whether the Push latest job should also run on tags, i.e. have

  only:
    # Only "main" should be tagged "latest"
    - main
    - tags

Otherwise the last tagged image (on main/master) has a different manifest digest (at least) than the "latest" image.

I guess that adding tags to only on the Push latest job bears the risk that you may end up with a "latest" image that is not from main/master, if one git-tags a commit from another branch.

Why are we building the same image again when adding a new tag?
We already have built pushed image, we also have the line with getting this image docker pull $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_SHA