GitOps and Docker Compose

This is a boilerplate repo to user docker compose with an GitOps approach.

Deployment of containers are done by Github Actions and selfhosted runners. As docker isn't like k8s ans support tools like flux, this could be an alternative to manage your docker compose in a git repository with automatic deployments on the docker host.

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Environment variables and secrets:

The Pipelines requires the following environment variables and secrets to be set in the repo:

Environment variables:

• GIT_DOCKER_REPO = Path to repository on host (e.g /opt/git/GitOps-docker)
• NEW_RELIC_REGION = New Relic region from you NR accout (EU/US) - Only needed when New Relic change tracking is used

SECRETS:

• NEW_RELIC_API_KEY = API Key for New Relic - Only needed when New Relic change tracking is used
• ** NEW_RELIC_ENTITY_GUID-(hostnumber)** = New Relic entity GUID - Only needed when New Relic change tracking is used

Precommit

This repo uses Pre-Commit to lint some things before committing and pushing to git.

1. Install Pre-Commit according to there documentation on your system
2. run precommit install in the root of the git repository to install the pre-commit

Pipeline Structure

flowchart LR
    id1(yamllint) --> id2(check-changes-system)
    id1 --> id3(check-changes-host-1)
    id1 --> id4(check-changes-host-2)
    id1 --> id11(check-changes-config)
    id2 --> id5(update-repo-host-1)
    id2 --> id6(update-repo-host-2)
    id2 --> id7(Matrix: delpoyment-host-1)
    id2 --> id8(Matrix: delpoyment-host-2)
    id5 --> id7
    id3 --> id7
    id11 --> id7
    id6 --> id8
    id4 --> id8
    id11 --> id8
    id7 --> id9(review-host-1)
    id8 --> id10(review-host-2)

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Add a new Application

• Create a folder for the application in /services and put docker-compose file and other configuration files in there

• Modify the config files in /config:

• Add the App to the app-[host].yml filter file for the corresponding host and make sure that the two application names are the same:

application-name:
  - 'services/application-name/**'

• Add the App to the system.yml config file under the section of the corresponding host:

host-1:
  - 'services/application-1/**'
  - 'services/application-2/**'

host-2:
  - 'services/application-1/**'
  - 'services/application-3/**'
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• add the application to the Services section of the README.md file

Add a new Docker-Host

• Follow the official documentation for How to add a Runner
• In the configuration setup: add a tag to the runner similar to the hostname, e.g. docker-prod-1. This tag is used to que the applications to the right docker host
• to run the runner as a service, execute ./svc.sh install and ./svc.sh start
• add the label from the runner in /.github/actionlint.yaml

self-hosted-runner:
  labels:
    - runner-label

• create a application config file in /config with the name app-[hostname].yml
• create a section in the system config /config/system.yml
• add the runner to the deployment pipeline in ./github/workflows/docker-deployment-prod.yml.

Deployment-pipeline changes:

change:

• output-name: <hostname>

check-changes-system:
    outputs:
      <hostname>: ${{ steps.changes-system.outputs.<hostname> }}

change:

• Job-Name: <hostname>
• outputs: app-<hostname>
• step-name: changes-docker-<environment>
• filters: config/<config-file>

  check-changes-app-<hostname>:
    needs: [validate-yaml]
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    outputs:
      app-<hostname>: ${{ steps.changes-app.outputs.changes }}

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: changes-docker-<environment>
        uses: dorny/paths-filter@v3
        id: changes-app
        with:
          base: 'main'
          list-files: 'json'
          filters: config/<config-file>

change:

• Job-Name: <hostname>
• if: <hostname>
• runs-on: <runner-label>

  update-repo-<hostname>:
    needs: [check-changes-system]
    if: ${{ needs.check-changes-system.outputs.<hostname> == 'true' }}
    runs-on: <runner-label>

    steps:
      - name: update-repository
        run: |
          cd ${{ vars.GIT_DOCKER_REPO }}
          git pull
          git checkout main
          git pull

change:

• Job-Name: <environment>
• needs: <hostname>
• if: <hostname>
• runs-on: <runner-label>
• environment: <environment>
• matrix-app: <hostname>

  deploy-docker-<environment>:
    needs: [check-changes-system, check-changes-app-<hostname>, update-repo-<hostname>]
    if: ${{ needs.check-changes-system.outputs.<hostname> == 'true' }}
    runs-on: <runner-label>
    environment: <environment>
    strategy:
      matrix:
        app: ${{ fromJSON(needs.check-changes-app-<hostname>.outputs.app-<hostname>) }}

    steps:
      - name: deploy ${{ matrix.app }}
        run: |
          cd ${{ vars.GIT_DOCKER_REPO }}/services/${{ matrix.app }}
          docker compose pull
          docker compose up -d --remove-orphans

change:

• Job-Name: <environment>
• needs: <hostname>
• runs-on: <runner-label>
• step-name: <hostname>
• guid: <newrelic_entity_guid>

  review-docker-<environment>:
    needs: [deploy-docker-<hostname>, check-changes-app-<hostname>]
    runs-on: <runner-label>
    steps:
      - name: Running Containers
        id: running-containers
        run: docker ps

      - name: Running Stacks
        id: running-stacks
        run: docker compose ls

      - name: Change Marker <hostname>
        uses: newrelic/deployment-marker-action@v2.3.0
        with:
          apiKey: ${{ secrets.NEW_RELIC_API_KEY }}
          guid: "<newrelic_entity_guid>"
          version: "${{ github.run_number }}"
          user: "${{ github.actor }}"