Multi Arch GitHub Actions

About

A sample project of adding continuous integration multi-arch buildx to GitHub and utilising the GitHub actions, workflows and job settings. This project contains a simple_loop.py python file that prints a progress bar of a for loop. The aim of this project to serve a sample project for implementing GitHub's workflow using workflow files, and custom actions and multiple jobs.

Folder Structure

multi-arch-github-actions
│
├── README.md
├── .github # gitHub workflow directory
│     ├── actions # Custom actions directory
│     │   └── install-run-code # This project's Custom Action to be referred to by name in workflows
│     │       └── action.yml # Action instructions file [Must be named action]
│     └── workflows # This project's Workflows
│         └── ci_workflow.yml # Workflow instructions file
├── .gitignore # git ignore file
├── pyproject.toml
└── simple_loop.py

Getting Started

There is no need to run the project locally, but in case it is needed here is the quick start instructions used. Note: Those are the same instructions in .github/workflows/ci_workflows.yml and .github/actions/install-run-code/actions.yml

Project is also setup for a Docker Multi-arch build for arm64 and amd64. Read more about it in this article.

Create a virtualenv

 virtualenv venv -p python3

Activate your venv

source venv/bin/activate

Install poetry and pyfiglet using pip

pip install poetry pyfiglet

Run poetry install to install all needed python packages

poetry install

Run pyfiglet because you can

pyfiglet Multi Arch GitHub Actions

Finally, run code

python simple_loop.py

You should have something like that:

This is a progress bar of the simple loop script
100%|███████| 1000000/1000000 [00:00<00:00, 4474649.76it/s]