Hi 👋🏼, I am Niklas, a DevOps engineer from Cologne, Germany.

The previous post was about conditional jobs [^1]. GitHub also offers the possibility of providing individual steps with a condition. The usage is almost identical to the conditional jobs. How you can implement them is described below.

With GitHub Actions it is possible to trigger jobs under certain conditions. GitHub provides the if for this purpose, which can be called at job level. In the following you will see how this can be achieved.

TLDR: Full commands can be found at the end of the post.

Update - 14 February 2023: Added command to pull the hosted Helm chart. Pull from GHCR

I recently started to check out Helm and thought about the combination of hosting the charts on GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) since the charts follow the regular OCI (Open Container Image) standard which is also used by Docker container images. Because of that, I tried to understand the steps necessary to host my charts on GHCR since public charts / containers are free of charge. The following post will describe the necessary steps that are required. So let’s dive right in.

TLDR: The buildspec.yaml can be found at the end of the post.

I’ve spent the last few days building multi-architecture containers in AWS Codebuild. There was no quick and easy guide, so I want to document my journey with this post.

Since I worked with buildx before I wanted to use it so I can build both images on the same host machine. I knew that GitHub actions for example already have actions to easily integrate buildx in one’s workflows.

Since I want to get more into Firecracker MicroVMs I started playing around with Weave’s Ignite which gives a familiar interface to docker to interact with the VMs. I do this with DigitalOcean’s droplets (Affiliate link, get $100 in credits for 60 days for free) since they have KVM enabled and are pretty inexpensive. This script will also work on the $5/month Droplets. Since I set up a new droplet every time to save costs when testing Ignite out I wanted to keep it simple and "automate" the installation with a quick bash script. The steps are taken from the installation page from the Ignite docs).