GHA test workflow - Using GHA service containers

test-services.yml

name: Test with service containers

on: [push]

jobs:
  test:
    env:
      RAILS_ENV: test
      NODE_ENV: test
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest # runner
    
    services:
      database:
        image: postgres
        env:
          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
        ports:
          - 5432:5432
        options: >-
          --health-cmd pg_isready
          --health-interval 10s
          --health-timeout 5s
          --health-retries 5

      chrome:
        image: selenium/standalone-chrome-debug
        ports:
          - 4444:4444
          - 5900:5900
        volumes:
          - /dev/shm:/dev/shm

    steps:

    - name: Output services network
      id: network
      run: |
        echo ::set-output name=services_network::${{ job.container.network }}
        echo ${{ job.container.network }}

    - name: Checkout code
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Set up Docker Buildx
      uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v1
      with:
        version: latest
        install: true

    - name: Prepare Tags
      id: tags
      run: |
        TAG=$(echo $GITHUB_SHA | head -c7)
        IMAGE="dev/test"
        echo ::set-output name=tagged_image::${IMAGE}:${TAG}
        echo ::set-output name=tag::${TAG}
         
    - name: Cache main image layers
      uses: actions/cache@v2
      with:
        path: /tmp/.buildx-main-cache
        key: ${{ runner.os }}-buildx-main-${{ github.sha }}
        restore-keys: |
          ${{ runner.os }}-buildx-main-
   
    - name: Build code
      uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
      with:
        push: false
        file: .ci-services/Dockerfile-services.ci
        load: true
        cache-from: type=local,src=/tmp/.buildx-main-cache
        cache-to: type=local,mode=max,dest=/tmp/.buildx-main-cache-new
        tags: ${{ steps.tags.outputs.tagged_image }}

    - name: Run Tests
      run: |
        TEST_IMAGE_TAG=${{ steps.tags.outputs.tagged_image }} SERVICES_NETWORK=${{ steps.network.outputs.services_network }} docker-compose -f .ci-services/docker-compose.test.services.yml run test
      
    # Temp fix for growing cache
    # https://github.com/docker/build-push-action/issues/252
    # https://github.com/moby/buildkit/issues/1896
    - name: Move cache
      run: |
        rm -rf /tmp/.buildx-main-cache
        mv /tmp/.buildx-main-cache-new /tmp/.buildx-main-cache

Amazing! Managed to get integration tests set-up on GHA with redis, mysql and scireum/s3-ninja in about 30 minutes. Thank you! 🙇