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Build with Docker GitHub Builder — Build and push an image

The following workflow builds from the repository Dockerfile, pushes on branch and tag events, and uses metadata inputs to generate tags Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```yaml name: ci on: push: branches: - "main" tags: - "v*" pull_request: permissions: contents:

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). The following workflow builds from the repository Dockerfile, pushes on branch and tag events, and uses metadata inputs to generate tags Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```yaml name: ci on: push: branches: - "main" tags: - "v*" pull_request: permissions: contents: read jobs: build: uses: docker/github-builder/.github/workflows/build.yml@{{% param "github_builder_version" %}} permissions: contents: read # to fetch the repository content id-token: write # for signing attestation(s) with GitHub OIDC Token with: output: image push: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }} platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64 meta-images: name/app meta-tags: | type=ref,event=branch type=ref,event=pr type=semver,pattern={{version}} secrets: registry-auths: | - registry: docker.io username: ${{ vars.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }} password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }} ``` When you set output: image, meta-images is required because the workflow creates image names and manifest tags from that input. distribute: true is the default, so a multi-platform build can fan out across native GitHub-hosted runners instead of forcing the whole build onto one machine. The default runner mapping sends Linux Arm platforms to ubuntu-24.04-arm and uses ubuntu-24.04 for other platforms. To change that mapping, see runner selection. sign: auto is also the default, which means the workflow signs attestation manifests when the image is pushed. Attribution: Adapted from Docker Documentation under Apache-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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