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How to make your own CI container for github actions

able to run your github actions online
context: needed to install more php extensions
avoid repetition between linting and testing workflows Lint

on: push
name: Code Style
jobs:
  php:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1

      - name: Setup PHP
        uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
        with:
          php-version: 7.4
          tools: pecl
          extensions: dom, curl, libxml, mbstring, zip, pcntl, pdo, sqlite, pdo_sqlite, bcmath, soap, intl, gd, exif, iconv, imagick, couchbase
          coverage: none
        # By default, extensions which cannot be added or removed gracefully leave an error message in the logs, the action is not interrupted. To change this behaviour you can set fail-fast flag to true.
        env:
          fail-fast: true

      - name: Get Composer Cache Directory
        id: composer-cache
        run: |
          echo "::set-output name=dir::$(composer config cache-files-dir)"

      - uses: actions/cache@v2
        with:
          path: ${{ steps.composer-cache.outputs.dir }}
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-composer-${{ hashFiles('**/composer.lock') }}
          restore-keys: |
            ${{ runner.os }}-composer-

      - name: Install Composer dependencies
        run: composer global require friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer

      - name: Check PHP CS Fixer version
        run: php-cs-fixer --version

      - name: Check Coding Standards
        run: composer lint

Test

on: push
name: Tests
jobs:
  php:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1

      - name: Setup PHP
        uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
        with:
          php-version: 7.4
          tools: pecl
          extensions: dom, curl, libxml, mbstring, zip, pcntl, pdo, sqlite, pdo_sqlite, bcmath, soap, intl, gd, exif, iconv, imagick, couchbase
          coverage: none
        # By default, extensions which cannot be added or removed gracefully leave an error message in the logs, the action is not interrupted. To change this behaviour you can set fail-fast flag to true.
        env:
          fail-fast: true

      - name: Run test suites
        run: composer test

using a custom customer

FROM ubuntu:20.04
LABEL maintainer="Optimus Debugger <[email protected]>"
ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

ENV GOSS_VERSION="0.3.6"

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y software-properties-common curl
RUN add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php -y
RUN add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa -y
RUN apt-get update -y
RUN apt-get install -y \
    unzip  \
    php7.4-cli \
    php7.4-gd \
    php7.4-json \
    php7.4-ldap \
    php7.4-mbstring \
    php7.4-mysql \
    php7.4-pgsql \
    php7.4-sqlite3 \
    php7.4-xml \
    php7.4-xsl \
    php7.4-zip \
    php7.4-curl \
    php7.4-soap \
    php7.4-gmp \
    php7.4-bcmath \
    php7.4-imagick \
    php7.4-intl \
    php7.4-redis \
    php7.4-imap \
    php7.4-phpdbg \
    php7.4-dom \
    php7.4-pdo \
    php7.4-sqlite \
    php7.4-bcmath \
    php7.4-intl \
    php7.4-soap \
    php7.4-exif \
    php7.4-iconv \
    php7.4-imagick

# composer
ENV COMPOSER_HOME=/composer
ENV PATH=./vendor/bin:/composer/vendor/bin:/root/.yarn/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
ENV COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

# mysql client
RUN apt-get install -y mysql-client

# git
RUN apt-get install -y git

# node and yarn
RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | bash -
RUN apt-get install -y nodejs
RUN npm install -g yarn

# goss
RUN curl -fsSL https://goss.rocks/install | GOSS_VER=v${GOSS_VERSION} sh

## Install PECL
RUN apt-get install -y php-pear php7.4-dev php7.4-xml

## MongoDB
RUN pecl install mongodb-1.10.0alpha1

Usage become

Lint

on: push
name: Code Style
jobs:
  php:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1

      - name: Install system dependencies
        run: |
          sudo wget -O - https://packages.couchbase.com/ubuntu/couchbase.key | sudo apt-key add -
          echo "deb https://packages.couchbase.com/ubuntu bionic bionic/main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/couchbase.list
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install libcouchbase-dev

      - name: Setup PHP
        uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
        with:
          php-version: 7.4
          tools: pecl
          extensions: dom, curl, libxml, mbstring, zip, pcntl, pdo, sqlite, pdo_sqlite, bcmath, soap, intl, gd, exif, iconv, imagick, couchbase
          coverage: none
        # By default, extensions which cannot be added or removed gracefully leave an error message in the logs, the action is not interrupted. To change this behaviour you can set fail-fast flag to true.
        env:
          fail-fast: true

      - name: Get Composer Cache Directory
        id: composer-cache
        run: |
          echo "::set-output name=dir::$(composer config cache-files-dir)"

      - uses: actions/cache@v2
        with:
          path: ${{ steps.composer-cache.outputs.dir }}
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-composer-${{ hashFiles('**/composer.lock') }}
          restore-keys: |
            ${{ runner.os }}-composer-

      - name: Install Composer dependencies
        run: composer global require friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer

      - name: Check PHP CS Fixer version
        run: php-cs-fixer --version

      - name: Check Coding Standards
        run: composer lint

Test

on: push
name: Tests
jobs:
  php:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
      image: your-org/laravel-test-runner:7.4

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1

      - name: Run test suites
        run: composer test

Simpler is better
CI to auto publish and validate publish: .github/workflows/php-7.4-publish.yml

name: php-7.4-publish
on:
push:
branches:
- master
jobs:
publish:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1

    - name: Publish to Registry
      uses: elgohr/Publish-Docker-Github-Action@master
      with:
        name: pfizer/canvas-test-runner
        username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }}
        workdir: 7.4
        tags: "7.4"

validate: .github/workflows/php-7.4-validate.yml

on: push
name: php-7.4-validate
jobs:
  validate:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
      image: pfizer/canvas-test-runner:7.4

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - run: goss --gossfile 7.4/goss.yaml validate

goss goss.yaml

command:
  node --version:
    exit-status: 0
    stdout:
      - "v12"
  yarn --version:
    exit-status: 0
  npm --version:
    exit-status: 0
    stdout:
      - "6"
  git --version:
    exit-status: 0
  composer --version:
    exit-status: 0
  php --version:
    exit-status: 0
    stdout:
      - 7
  php -m:
    exit-status: 0
    stdout:
      - bcmath
      - calendar
      - exif
      - gd
      - iconv
      - imagick
      - imap
      - intl
      - ldap
      - mbstring
      - mysqli
      - pcntl
      - pdo_mysql
      - pdo_pgsql
      - pgsql
      - soap
      - xml
      - zip
      - mongodb
      - couchbase