README.md

Dockerized github cli

Simple container running in alpine Linux to run the github cli seamlessly for use anywhere

Very useful in projects using docker in their CI processes

Github Repo

https://github.com/maniator/gh

Docker image tags

https://hub.docker.com/r/maniator/gh/tags/

Usage

docker run -it --rm -v ${HOME}:/root -v $(pwd):/gh -e GITHUB_TOKEN=<token> maniator/gh <command>

Optional alias:

alias gh="docker run -ti --rm -v ${HOME}:/root -v $(pwd):/gh maniator/gh"

for example, if you need clone this repository, with the alias you just set, you can run it as local command

gh repo clone serveside/gh

Kubernetes usage

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: containers-images
        image: images-names:v1.0.0
        volumeMounts:
          - name: vc-theme
            mountPath: /opt/themes/custom
      initContainers:
        - name: git
          image: maniator/gh:latest
          env:
            - name: GITHUB_TOKEN
              value: "ghp_xxxxxxxxx"
          command: ["sh", "-c"]
          args: ["gh auth setup-git --hostname github.com && git clone https://github.com/username/theme.git"]
          volumeMounts:
            - name: vc-theme
              mountPath: /gh/theme
      volumes:
        - name: vc-theme
          emptyDir: {}