## Fixing GitHub workflow issue related to build and push images
## Summary of changes
Followup of PR#608[move docker file from build repo to neon to solve
issue some issues
The build started failing because it missed a validation in logic that
determines changes in the docker file
Also, all the dependent jobs were skipped because of the build and push
of the image job.
To address the above issue following changes were made
- we are adding validation to generate image tag even if it's a merge to
repo.
- All the dependent jobs won't skip even if the build and push image job
is skipped.
- We have moved the logic to generate a tag in the sub-workflow. As the
tag name was necessary to be passed to the sub-workflow it made sense to
abstract that away where it was needed and then store it as an output
variable so that downward dependent jobs could access the value.
- This made the dependency logic easy and we don't need complex
expressions to check the condition on which it will run
- An earlier PR was closed that tried solving a similar problem that has
some feedback and context before creating this PR
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/6175
## Checklist before requesting a review
- [x] Move the tag generation logic from the main workflow to the
sub-workflow of build and push the image
- [x] Add a condition to generate an image tag for a non-PR-related run
- [x] remove complex if the condition from the job if conditions
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Co-authored-by: Alexander Bayandin <alexander@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Abhijeet Patil <abhijeet@neon.tech>
It turns out the issue with skipped jobs is not so trivial (because
Github checks jobs transitively), a possible workaround with `if:
always() && contains(fromJSON('["success", "skipped"]'),
needs.build-buildtools-image.result)` will tangle the workflow really
bad. We'll need to come up with a better solution.
To unblock the main I'm going to revert
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/6082.
## Currently our build docker file is located in the build repo it makes
sense to have it as a part of our neon repo
## Summary of changes
We had the docker file that we use to build our binary and other tools
resided in the build repo
It made sense to bring the docker file to its repo where it has been
used
So that the contributors can also view it and amend if required
It will reduce the maintenance. Docker file changes and code changes can
be accommodated in same PR
Also, building the image and pushing it to ECR is abstracted in a
reusable workflow. Ideal is to use that for any other jobs too
## Checklist before requesting a review
- [x] Moved the docker file used to build the binary from the build repo
to the neon repo
- [x] adding gh workflow to build and push the image
- [x] adding gh workflow to tag the pushed image
- [x] update readMe file
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Co-authored-by: Abhijeet Patil <abhijeet@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Bayandin <alexander@neon.tech>
## Problem
We don't have this instruction written anywhere but in internal Slack
## Summary of changes
- Add `How to run a CI pipeline on Pull Requests from external
contributors` section to `CONTRIBUTING.md`
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Co-authored-by: Arpad Müller <arpad-m@users.noreply.github.com>
