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GoReleaser Pro v1.11+ added support to keeping a nightly release.
That means that, whenever you want, you can run:
goreleaser releaser --clean --nightly
And it’ll delete previous nightly
releases and create a new one with the
current commit artifacts.
To enable it, you’ll need to change a few things in your .goreleaser.yml
.
The first one, is actually enabling the nightly release publishing, and setting up the version name template, as well as instructing GoReleaser to keep a single nightly release:
# .goreleaser.yml
# ...
nightly:
publish_release: true
keep_single_release: true
name_template: '{{ incminor .Version }}-nightly'
tag_name: nightly
# ...
This will do a couple of things when you do a nightly release:
nightly
tag and release;{{.Version}}
template variable will now be the result of the
name_template
field aboveAnother change you might want to do is related to the Docker images.
Nightly releases do build and publish Docker images and manifests.
If you have a :latest
tag, you might not want it to be published on nightly
releases.
To do that, we can change those to evaluate to an empty string when it’s a nightly release:
# .goreleaser.yml
# ...
dockers:
- image_templates:
- 'user/repo:v{{ .Version }}'
- '{{ if not .IsNightly }}user/repo:latest{{ end }}'
# ...
You could also do something like:
# .goreleaser.yml
# ...
dockers:
- image_templates:
- 'user/repo:v{{ .Version }}'
- 'user/repo:latest{{ if .IsNightly }}-nightly{{ end }}'
# ...
So it’ll create a :latest-nightly
tag along with the :v{{ .Version }}
one.
The same thing applies to Docker Manifests:
# .goreleaser.yml
# ...
docker_manifests:
- name_template: '{{ if not .IsNightly }}user/repo:latest{{ end }}'
image_templates:
- 'user/repo:v{{ .Version }}-amd64'
- 'user/repo:v{{ .Version }}-arm64'
# ...
Basically any empty Docker image_template
or Docker Manifest name_template
is ignored.
I don’t particularly want to run GoReleaser in my machine to build and release anything, so I also created a GitHub Actions workflow for it:
# .github/workflows/nightly.yml
name: goreleaser-nightly
on:
workflow_dispatch:
permissions:
contents: write
packages: write
jobs:
goreleaser:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- uses: actions/setup-go@v2
with:
go-version: 1.19
- uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v3
with:
distribution: goreleaser-pro
version: latest
args: release --clean --nightly
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
# Your GoReleaser Pro key:
GORELEASER_KEY: ${{ secrets.GORELEASER_KEY }}
This way, when I want to release a new nightly, I can just run the workflow in the “Actions” tab of the repository.
And it works:
You can see the latest nightly release here.
Of course, you can also automate it to run, say, daily, or on each commit to
the main
branch:
# .github/workflows/nightly.yml
name: goreleaser-nightly
on:
# release every commit to main:
push:
branches:
- 'main'
# release daily:
schedule:
- cron: '0 * * * *'
# ...
You can read more about it in the GitHub Documentation.
This is only available on GoReleaser Pro. If you want to give it a try, you have an one-week free trial, and since your read all this post here, you can also use this $20 discount, limited to the first 20 people.
I hope you like it!
Well, that’s what I had to show you today! I hope it’s helpful somehow, and I’ll see you in the next one!