Preface
This blog post assumes:
- The user is familiar with:
- The user has an account with:
For those unfamiliar with the above, here are some resources
Introduction
I prefer using Quay.io as my container registry instead of Dockerhub, and as such, I had to learn how setup Travis to push to quay.io. This is something I hadn’t done before, as I’ve only recently started making my own container images.
Step One: fork the tutorial repo
I’ve setup a repo on github that I’ll be using as a guide for this tutorial, it
can be found here. All
you need to do is press the Fork button:
This will make a copy of my repo for you to use with your account. The next step is to clone this repo:
git clone [email protected]:AdrianKoshka/travis-quay-tutorial.git
You can find the URL to clone from when you press the Clone or download button.
Step Two: Initial repo setup
You’ll need to edit the .travis.yml and docker_push files in your repo,
replacing [yourusername] with the username of your quay account.
Step Three: Creating the quay repository
When signed into quay, in the upper right-hand corner, you’ll see a
+ Create New Repository button. Click the button,
You’ll want to select Public instead of Private, and enter the repository name.
Then click Create Public Repository. You’ve now created the empty repository
we’ll be pushing our container image to later.
Step Four: Creating the “Robot Account”
Robot accounts are “accounts” in quay.io under your user used for automated tasks.
Again, in the upper right-hand corner, you’ll see the + button, click it, then
click New Robot Account.
You’ll need to enter a name and description for the bot:
Press Create Robot Account, now you’ll have to give the robot write
permissions to the repo you just created:
Then press Add Permissions. You’ll be taken to your robot account settings
page now.
Click the username of your newly created bot, it should bring up a window with your bots username and password.
We’ll need these creds later.
Step Five: Adding variables to your repo on travis
On Travis, go to your settings and click the sync account button. In the list
of repositories should be your travis-quay-tutorial repo you forked earlier,
activate it, and click on the settings button.
Scroll down to the section named Environment Variables, and add a variable
name QUAY_BOT_USERNAME, put the username of your robot account that you saw
in the previous section, you should be able to copy-paste it.
Press the Add button. Add another variable called QUAY_BOT_PASSWORD and
enter your bots password.
Your Environment Variables section should look like this now:
Step Six: Committing the changes from step two
Now that you’ve set everything else up, you can commit your changes to
.travis.yml and docker_push, then push your changes to your fork. This
should trigger a build with travis, which will build the container, and then
push it to the quay repository.