# Balena Push via GitHub Actions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Product support\ **Created:** [February 29, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-push-via-github-actions/68084 "2020-02-29T06:03:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wlisac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/wlisac/32/1412_2.png) [@wlisac](https://forums.balena.io/u/wlisac)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-push-via-github-actions/68084/1 "2020-02-29T06:03:18Z")
Hi there, I’m wondering if there are plans to support an official GitHub Action to push code to a BalenaCloud app using the Balena CLI? @shaunmulligan – I’ve seen this on the product roadmap, but I’m not sure if it’s specific to a GitHub Action: [https://trello.com/c/ElN82kKs/73-deploy-from-a-github-repository](https://trello.com/c/ElN82kKs/73-deploy-from-a-github-repository) This community action is helpful, but it’s slow since it builds from source (and it’s not versioned): [https://github.com/theaccordance/balena-push](https://github.com/theaccordance/balena-push) It’s relatively straightforward to DIY with something like this, but I think being able to use an official (and versioned) action would be a great addition. ```auto - name: Balena Push run: | curl -L -o /tmp/balena.zip https://github.com/balena-io/balena-cli/releases/download/v11.28.5/balena-cli-v11.28.5-linux-x64-standalone.zip unzip /tmp/balena.zip -d /opt rm /tmp/balena.zip export PATH=$PATH:/opt/balena-cli balena login --token ${{secrets.BALENA_TOKEN}} balena push My-App ``` ---
**Author:** ![richbayliss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/richbayliss/32/1054_2.png) [@richbayliss](https://forums.balena.io/u/richbayliss)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-push-via-github-actions/68084/4 "2020-03-02T13:46:30Z")
Hey, Thanks for sharing this; I personally wasn’t aware of the project you linked. It has been made aware to our product team and I believe that they will be discussing the possibility of us providing an official action soon. ---
**Author:** ![rapha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/rapha/32/1239_2.png) [@rapha](https://forums.balena.io/u/rapha)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-push-via-github-actions/68084/6 "2021-02-11T23:53:29Z")
@richbayliss Great to hear. Any progress to report on this? There are a couple of actions I am aware of, such as: [GitHub - bekriebel/balena-cli-action: Continuously deploy your application to BalenaCloud](https://github.com/bekriebel/balena-cli-action) but they seem rather outdated. ---
**Author:** ![circleoncircles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/circleoncircles/32/5917_2.png) [@circleoncircles](https://forums.balena.io/u/circleoncircles)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2021, 2:43am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-push-via-github-actions/68084/7 "2021-06-03T02:43:03Z")
ping the progress, I am too could not use any pre-build actions ---
**Author:** ![barryjump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@barryjump](https://forums.balena.io/u/barryjump)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 9:09am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-push-via-github-actions/68084/8 "2021-06-16T09:09:58Z")
+1 on this. I too tried all the community built Github Actions, but none worked and all seemed outdated. An official Github Action from Balena would be glorious. ---
**Author:** ![mpous](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/mpous/32/4742_2.png) [@mpous](https://forums.balena.io/u/mpous)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-push-via-github-actions/68084/11 "2021-06-21T11:23:54Z")
@barryjump @circleoncircles let me share with you something that it’s still work in progress but it would be cool to get your feedback and maybe contributions? > **[balena-io-playground/github-actions](https://github.com/balena-io-playground/github-actions)** > > Collection of github actions you can use to easily integrate projects with balena. - balena-io-playground/github-actions Remember, this repo is on `balena-io-playground`, so that means that it’s not ready for production and it’s still WIP. But glad to learn what do you think. ---
**Author:** ![rapha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/rapha/32/1239_2.png) [@rapha](https://forums.balena.io/u/rapha)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 12:20pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-push-via-github-actions/68084/16 "2021-07-15T12:20:39Z")
We manage to push via a Github Action, but had to manually update one of the existing balena github actions to use the newest balena cli. We have a few specialities such as - pulling pre-built images prior to deployment from both Github and Gitlab - We have native arm64 runners that are significantly quicker than balena’s - we thus also deploy using the `--emulate` tag to hit the quicker balena x86 runners - having to handle submodules - Caching through the image itself (will blow up the image size - do something else) - Tag the balena release with the branch or git tag, as well as the git SHA My workflow file looks like this: ```auto name: Build Docker images and deploy to Balena on: push: branches: - "master" workflow_dispatch: jobs: docker: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v2 - name: checkout submodules using deploy ssh key env: SSH_KEY: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_SSH_KEY }} run: | mkdir $HOME/.ssh && echo "$SSH_KEY" > $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa && chmod 600 $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa ssh-keyscan -t rsa github.com >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts ssh-keyscan -t rsa gitlab.com >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts git submodule sync --recursive git submodule update --init --recursive --force - name: Set up QEMU uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v1 - name: Set up Docker Buildx uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v1 - name: Login to DockerHub uses: docker/login-action@v1 with: registry: ghcr.io username: ${{ github.repository_owner }} password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} - name: Build and push Build Do image uses: docker/build-push-action@v2 with: context: . file: nx.Dockerfile push: true tags: ghcr.io/SOME_ORG/SOME_IMAGE platforms: linux/arm64 cache-from: type=registry,ref=ghcr.io/SOME_ORG/SOME_IMAGE cache-to: type=inline - name: "Pull containers" run: docker-compose pull - name: Balena Deploy uses: aivero/balena-cli-action@master if: success() timeout-minutes: 15 with: balena_api_token: ${{ secrets.BALENA_TOKEN }} balena_command: balena deploy SOME_BALENA_APPLICATION --emulated balena_secrets: | { "ghcr.io": { "username": "${{ github.actor }}", "password": "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" } } - name: Balena tag release with git ref uses: aivero/balena-cli-action@master if: success() timeout-minutes: 5 with: balena_api_token: ${{ secrets.BALENA_TOKEN }} balena_command: balena app SOME_BALENA_APPLICATION | grep COMMIT | awk '{print $2}' | xargs balena tag set version ${{ github.ref }} --release - name: Balena tag telease with git SHA uses: aivero/balena-cli-action@master if: success() timeout-minutes: 5 with: balena_api_token: ${{ secrets.BALENA_TOKEN }} balena_command: balena app SOME_BALENA_APPLICATION | grep COMMIT | awk '{print $2}' | xargs balena tag set commit_sha ${{ github.sha }} --release ``` ---
**Author:** ![tmigone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/tmigone/32/2814_2.png) [@tmigone](https://forums.balena.io/u/tmigone)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-push-via-github-actions/68084/19 "2021-07-27T16:48:53Z")
Hey thanks for the feedback, ill forward to the team that’s working on this so they are aware of the use case.