Hello,
I’m trying to deploy a docker image to an App using the official GitHub Action pipeline. I have setup my wokflow to create or update a new app, the push the image. Here is my step:
deploy:
name: Deploy
needs: build
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Deploy
uses: digitalocean/app_action/deploy@v2
env:
DIGEST: ${{ steps.push.outputs.digest }}
GHCR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
with:
token: ${{ secrets.DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
And here is my app.yaml:
name: xxx
region: ams
services:
- name: xxx
image:
registry_type: GHCR
registry: me
repository: xxx
digest: ${DIGEST}
registry_credentials: 'me:${GHCR_TOKEN}'
envs:
# -...
The steps and pipeline seems to push correcly the image to my app and start the container. However, when the container starts, the deployment still thinks it’s deploying, and then fails due to a timeout.

How can I tell the deployment that the container has started and the deployment is successfull ? Am I missing a step ?
Thanks
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Accepted Answer
Hi there,
It sounds like you just need to make sure that you have configured a proper health-check:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/manage-health-checks/
That way you will make sure that the App Platform knows that your application is running successfully.
Let me know how it goes!
- Bobby
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