gh cli docker

This provides GitHub CLI in Docker using a small alpine base image. Running this container brings GitHub CLI program to your system without any installation effort (except Docker itself).

build the image

# clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/Aalmann/gh-cli-docker.git

# run docker build
docker build gh-cli-docker -t aalmann/gh-cli:latest

This will create a build container for GitHub CLI build on Alpine. The installation ist then copied into the final container image.

usage

Have a look at the gh.* (shell, batch and PowerShell) files. These scripts call docker with the appropriate arguments for mount point (current working directory) and providing the environment variable for GH_TOKEN, which is required to interact with the GitHub API. This token is required for the most commands, so just provide GH_TOKEN in your environment.

#!/bin/bash 
IMAGE_NAME=aalmann/gh-cli

if [[ -z "$GH_TOKEN" ]]; then 
    TOKEN_ENV=""
    echo No token GH_TOKEN given
else
    TOKEN_ENV=" -e GH_TOKEN=${GH_TOKEN}"
    echo GH_TOKEN found in environment. Will using it.
fi

docker run ${TOKEN_ENV} -v `pwd`:/gh $IMAGE_NAME $@