New Beta Feature: Deep Dive into GitHub Actions Docker Builds with Docker Desktop

We’re excited to announce the beta release of a new feature for inspecting GitHub Actions builds directly in Docker Desktop 4.31. 

Centralized CI/CD environments, such as GitHub Actions, are popular and useful, giving teams a single location to build, test, and verify their deployments. However, remote processes, such as builds in GitHub Actions, often lack visibility into what’s happening in your Docker builds. This means developers often need additional builds and steps to locate the root cause of issues, making diagnosing and resolving build issues challenging. 

To help, we’re introducing enhancements in GitHub Actions Summary and Docker Desktop to provide a deeper understanding of your Docker builds in GitHub Actions.

We now provide Docker Build Summary, a GitHub Actions Summary that displays reports and aggregates build information. The Docker Build Summary offers additional details about your builds in GitHub Actions, including a high-level summary of performance metrics, such as build duration, and cache utilization (Figure 1). Users of docker/build-push-action and docker/bake-action will automatically receive Docker Build Summaries. 

If further investigation is needed, we package your build results in a .dockerbuild archive file. This file can be imported to the Build View in Docker Desktop, providing comprehensive build details, including timings, dependencies, logs, and traces.

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