Problem
I've been trying to setup a SurrealDB container within my test job in GitHub Actions. The step I am currently struggling with is that I can't find a way to expose the ports on my surreal-db custom docker action. Previously, I have also tried using a service container (my understanding is that the service container is usually used for that purpose).
Attempts to solve it
- Running it as a service container:
test: name: Test runs-on: ubuntu-latest env: SURREAL_USER: ${{ secrets.SURREAL_USER }} SURREAL_PASS: ${{ secrets.SURREAL_PASS }} SURREAL_PORT: ${{ vars.SURREAL_PORT }} steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 ... services: db: image: surrealdb/surrealdb:latest # Problem here is that I can't use the entrypoint property to launch the server ports: - ${{ vars.SURREAL_PORT }:8000
- Creating a custom GitHub action to run it
...inputs: surreal-user: description: "Username for the account" required: false default: "root" surreal-pass: description: "Password for the account" required: false default: "root" surreal-port: description: "Port to expose on the host machine" required: false default: "8000"runs: using: "docker" image: docker://surrealdb/surrealdb:latest entrypoint: "entrypoint.sh" args: - ${{ inputs.surreal-user }} - ${{ inputs.surreal-pass }} - ${{ inputs.surreal-port }} # ... and here I can't use the ports property
I am thinking that there must be a way to expose the ports somehow. Anyone know how? Or do you have an alternative way of working around that problem?