HolyClony•5w ago

Tried using GH Actions to deploy, but

Tried using GH Actions to deploy, but since it's a monorepo, actors have "dockerContextDir": "../../..", so it's impossible to use apify push without an error (context dir cannot be outside of the actor root dir)

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rare-sapphire•5w ago

why not make the context dir local for each actor? "./"

Lukas Krivka•5w ago

We at Apify deploy from GitHub with monorepo. You actually don't need to set anything special, the git URL just needs to point to the folder where Actor is and that Actor must point to correct dockerContextDir and dockerfile We also having testing versions where we update the branch to point to the PR head before building via API

HolyClonyOP•4w ago

You mean using the built-in Github deploy?

HolyClonyOP•4w ago

If I do that, then automatic build can only work for one actor in the monorepo

Lukas Krivka•4w ago

No, we have custom GitHub Action workflows that use the Apify API to update versions, trigger builds, run test Actors etc. Hopefully we will eventually open-source it.

rare-sapphire•4w ago

@Lukas Krivka - I ended up building something similar. But one thing I still can not automate is setting the actor icon! Any plans to create an endpoint for that too?

HolyClonyOP•4w ago

Do you see anything wrong with my workflow? It's pretty simple...

on:
    push:
        branches: [dev]
jobs:
    deploy-actors:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        steps:
            - uses: actions/checkout@v4

            - name: Setup Node.js
              uses: actions/setup-node@v4
              with:
                  node-version: '18'
                  cache: 'npm'

            - name: Install dependencies
              run: npm ci

            - name: Build all
              run: npm run build

            - name: Login to Apify
              run: npx apify login --token=${{ secrets.APIFY_TOKEN }}

            - name: Deploy product-hunt-scraper
              run: npx apify push --force
              working-directory: actors/product-hunt-scraper

            - name: Deploy website-emails-scraper
              run: npx apify push --force
              working-directory: actors/website-emails-scraper

on:
    push:
        branches: [dev]
jobs:
    deploy-actors:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        steps:
            - uses: actions/checkout@v4

            - name: Setup Node.js
              uses: actions/setup-node@v4
              with:
                  node-version: '18'
                  cache: 'npm'

            - name: Install dependencies
              run: npm ci

            - name: Build all
              run: npm run build

            - name: Login to Apify
              run: npx apify login --token=${{ secrets.APIFY_TOKEN }}

            - name: Deploy product-hunt-scraper
              run: npx apify push --force
              working-directory: actors/product-hunt-scraper

            - name: Deploy website-emails-scraper
              run: npx apify push --force
              working-directory: actors/website-emails-scraper

The problem is that for both of my actors, dockerContextDir points outside of the actor folder... (e.g. "dockerContextDir": "../../.."). And that makes sense because it's a monorepo, so the context dir should be the root of the repo, not the root of the actor... But then inevitably, I get this error:

ACTOR: ERROR: Actor context path "../../.." is outside of Actor root directory!

Not sure how to reconcile this. Any tips would be useful @Lukas Krivka & @pavel 🙏

Lukas Krivka•4w ago

Just don't use apify push, instead simply call the build endpoint for those 2 Actors

HolyClonyOP•4w ago

@Lukas Krivka Tried that already (making CURL requests to API). Error is the same

ACTOR: ERROR: Actor context path "../../.." is outside of Actor root directory!

Tried using GH Actions to deploy, but

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