vault backup: 2025-01-30 22:34:04

Author: abhiaagarwal

content/programming/tools/justfile/tagged-docker-images.md

@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ services:
             context: ./backend
 ```
 
-We can instead do `TAG=my-branch docker compose build` ! Still, not optimal. It involves typing _at least_ 4 extra characters, and if you're anything like me, you're going to do it more often than not. We _could_ export it globally, but I personally tend to avoid setting env variables.
+We can instead do `TAG=my-branch docker compose build` ! Still, not optimal. It involves typing _at least_ 4 extra characters, and if you're anything like me, you're going to do it less often than not. We _could_ export it globally, but I personally tend to avoid setting env variables.
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+Instead, we can use a justfile to calculate the tag dynamically and set the env variable.
 
 ```just
 export TAG=`(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
@@ -42,11 +44,13 @@ just up *FLAGS:
     docker compose up {{FLAGS}}
 ```
 
-Pretty cool! But this could create docker tags that aren't syntactically valid, like if the branch is called `my/feature-branch`. Instead, we can normalize it, following exactly what gitlab does to generate [`CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/blame/af6932352f8ed15d1a6d9c786399607bc6be2c2d/Makefile.build.mk?page=1#L25).
+Pretty cool! But this could create docker tags that aren't syntactically valid, like if the branch is called `my/FEATURE-branch`. Instead, we can normalize it, following exactly what gitlab does to generate [`CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/blame/af6932352f8ed15d1a6d9c786399607bc6be2c2d/Makefile.build.mk?page=1#L25).
 
 ```just
 export TAG=`(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD) | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]) | cut -c -63 | sed -E 's/[^a-z0-9-]+/-/g' | sed -E 's/^-*([a-z0-9-]+[a-z0-9])-*$$/\1/g')`
 
 just up *FLAGS:
     docker compose up {{FLAGS}}
 ```
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+This branch would get normalized to `my-feature-branch`, all lowercase.