By Mihkel
I was following the tutorial on https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/app-platform/how-to/deploy-from-registry/
But ran into some issues, when i push a new image to the container registry the app platform does not automatically trigger a new deployment. I have to manually go into the component setting and change the source tag to whatever is the latest tag to trigger a new deployment.
I’m not sure what i’m doing wrong. I’ve tried to use both existing and unique tag names, but still no automatic deployments :(
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What a load of crap. It has become clear that Digital Ocean is only good for hello world apps and even Linode is a much better choice. I have wasted so much time on simple things.
Hey, Is there any update ? If automatic deployment is not possible then we are going to change DO to AWS. It is too critical feature.
@mihkel195 the documentation is incredibly misleading and spent many hours before finding this post which confirms that it won’t automatically deploy.
One possible solution we are looking into is using doctl to trigger a deployment once an image has been pushed (we use GitHub actions).
Keep in mind there is another downside to this when you push an updated Docker image using an existing tag (ex: latest) the old version remains available (in the ether), but there is no way to view (or even less delete) it through the web interface and you will HAVE to use doctl to clean up images.
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