Hi,

Creating releases / atefacts / outputs / publishing from CI.

I may be going around this completely the wrong way, hence why I cannot seem to find a solution.

I have Nexus artefact repository set up to take Docker images.

In my pipeline, I build the container in a non-master branch. When I am happy with it, I want to create a PR, which once approved will push to master branch and publish the container image to Nexus.

I am having a hard time getting GitHub workflows to do the build and publish in different “phases”.

My ideas:

I’m aware of GitHub releases, but AFAIK, they don’t support container images. I would need to use a container repo such as docker.io or my own (Nexus).

Half the problem seems to be the on: statement. It happens at the start of the workflow. Is there a way to have multiple workflows with their own on: settings? This way the first one can build from non-master branches and the second one can build from master.

To achieve this, one way I am trying is to split my workflow into two jobs: build and publish. I’ve set if: github.event.pull_request.merged on the publish job but it never triggers. My on: statement looks like:

on:
  push:
    branches: [ develop, master ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ master ]

Even echoing out github.event.pull_request.merged, never returns anything.

I’m sure this is CI/CD 101, but I can’t get it to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

T.I.A