Example for mongodb?

[wusatosi]

MongoDB is widely used in personal projects and enterprise products, but there virtually no documentation or example of using it in GitHub-action. The addition of a workflow involving MongoDB would be great.

[wbari]

Any plans for this request ?

[cjwiseman11]

Not sure if this is best practice... but would something like this be useful to you?

name: Server and Database Start and Test

on: [push]

jobs:
  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04

    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [8.x]

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
    - name: Install dependencies
      run: npm install
    - name: Install MongoDB
      run: |
        wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-3.6.asc | sudo apt-key add -
        echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.6 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.6.list
        sudo apt-get update
        sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
        sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org=3.6.14 mongodb-org-server=3.6.14 mongodb-org-shell=3.6.14 mongodb-org-mongos=3.6.14 mongodb-org-tools=3.6.14
    - name: Start MongoDB
      run: sudo systemctl start mongod
    - name: Start Server
      run: node server/index.js

[wbari]

@cjwiseman11 Thanks for message, Yea that we are using as of now and install mongo as 0 step. But I guess as this is so common use, rather than writing whole isntallation steps better to just make an action call. We actually wrote these steps in a install.sh script and call to keep it clean.

[wbari]

I am just running mongo as docker which is enough for me to test my stuff with minimal steps to install/run dependency.

  run:  sudo docker run --name mongo -d -p 27017:27017 mongo

[wusatosi]

I am just running mongo as docker which is enough for me to test my stuff with minimal steps to install/run dependency.

  run:  sudo docker run --name mongo -d -p 27017:27017 mongo

I'm using such setup as well

[wusatosi]

Not sure if this is best practice... but would something like this be useful to you?

name: Server and Database Start and Test

on: [push]

jobs:
  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04

    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [8.x]

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
    - name: Install dependencies
      run: npm install
    - name: Install MongoDB
      run: |
        wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-3.6.asc | sudo apt-key add -
        echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.6 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.6.list
        sudo apt-get update
        sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
        sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org=3.6.14 mongodb-org-server=3.6.14 mongodb-org-shell=3.6.14 mongodb-org-mongos=3.6.14 mongodb-org-tools=3.6.14
    - name: Start MongoDB
      run: sudo systemctl start mongod
    - name: Start Server
      run: node server/index.js

Yeah, this is probably the "straight" way to do it, however, having to do this each time is kind of time consuming. I would like to look for base images that contains mongodb, like what circle-ci provides, .

[wbari]

I just created an Action based on docker and published, my first attempt, Basically starts mongodb specific version as detach docker container. Nothing fancy just a utility

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/start-mongodb-as-docker

[eos87]

You can use GitHub Actions Services within your jobs, like this

services:
  mongodb:
    image: mongo:3.4.23
    ports:
      - 27017:27017

Basically, you can add any service in a container using any docker image (I think). More info here https://help.github.com/en/actions/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idservices

[ktutnik]

You can use GitHub Actions Services within your jobs, like this

services:
  mongodb:
    image: mongo:3.4.23
    ports:
      - 27017:27017

Basically, you can add any service in a container using any docker image (I think). More info here https://help.github.com/en/actions/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idservices

Any chance to make it work on Windows?

[gblock0]

I was able to get windows-latest to start downloading the mongo docker container, but failed because of not enough disk space:

    - name: start mongod
      run: |
        echo "docker run --name mongo -d -p 27017:27017 mongo:4.2.3-windowsservercore-ltsc2016"
        docker run --name mongo -d -p 27017:27017 mongo:4.2.3-windowsservercore-ltsc2016
        shell: cmd

docker: failed to register layer: re-exec error: exit status 1: output: BackupWrite \?\C:\ProgramData\docker\windowsfilter\8790a08ac436398f78c865675ab58d908148e39f0124695cfba3fdbb813a6d86\Files\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Data.Services\v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Data.Services.dll: There is not enough space on the disk.

It seems there is ~8GB of space available on the runner and the mongo docker container only takes up ~400MB of space...

[wbari]

@ktutnik Thanks, Yes we figure it out and using services now. Its cool allows to express multiple versions as well. vhttps://github.com/opencb/cellbase/blob/next/.github/workflows/main.yml#L37

[robertsLando]

What if I would like to add a command to mongodb using services?

services:
  mongo:
    image: mongo
    command: --serviceExecutor adaptive

I get this error:

Your workflow file was invalid: The pipeline is not valid. .github/workflows/ci.yml (Line: 9, Col: 17): Unexpected value 'command'

[wbari]

Try env instead of command because there is no command option like docker compose under services : https://help.github.com/en/actions/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idcontainerenv

[robertsLando]

What env var should I use to add options to mongod command? I can’t find it

Daniel

On 28 Jan 2020, at 12:16, wbari notifications@github.com wrote:

 Try env instead of command because there is no command option like docker compose under services : https://help.github.com/en/actions/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idcontainerenv

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[kaytwo]

I just submitted #21 for anyone interested in a mongo example.

[ianwalter]

I've been using the basic implementation suggested above (using the mongo Docker image) but it's been flaky. Sometimes my workflow times out on the step that should seed the database. I'm thinking you'd need to add additional health check config like you do for running a Postgres service in Actions. Anyone else have this issue?

[kaytwo]

I haven't had this issue, but you could try using the healthcheck-enabled mongo:latest image available at https://hub.docker.com/r/healthcheck/mongo, which should only require changing the image line from

        image: mongo

to

        image: healthcheck/mongo

[chrispat]

I just merged #21 from @kaytwo.