Github actions: build and deploy Craft sites (WIP)

deploy.yaml

name: Craft CMS deployments

on:
  push:
    branches: [master]

jobs:
  build-and-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      # Pull repository into the current pipeline
      - name: pull repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      # Setup container with private SSH Key (used by rsync)
      - name: Loads private SSH key
        uses: webfactory/ssh-agent@v0.4.1
        with:
          ssh-private-key: ${{ secrets.SSH_KEY }}

      # Use a specific version of Node
      - name: Use Node.js 12.x
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: "12.x"

      # Install PHP dependencies
      - name: Composer install
        run: composer install --no-interaction --no-progress --no-suggest --optimize-autoloader

      # Install NPM dependencies
      - name: NPM install
        run: npm ci

      # Build assets using locally installed Gulp
      - name: Build assets with Gulp
        run: npx gulp build

      # rsync
      # exclude web/uploads is there to avoid deleting user uploaded files
      # The StrictHostKeyChecking option avoids a failure when the client does not know the SSH host already
      - name: deploy with rsync
        run: |
          rsync -azh --delete-after --exclude={'/web/uploads/','/node_modules/','/.git/','/.github/'} -e 'ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no' ./ ${{ secrets.SSH_USER }}@${{ secrets.ssh_HOST }}:~/

      # execute Craft commands on remote server
      - name: Execute SSH commmands on remote server
        uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
        with:
          host: ${{ secrets.ssh_HOST }}
          username: ${{ secrets.SSH_USER }}
          key: ${{ secrets.SSH_KEY }}
          script: |
            chmod a+x craft
            php craft backup/db
            php craft migrate/all
            php craft project-config/apply
            php craft clear-caches/all

@cbj4074 No problem. Glad it helped. The straightforward answer is that php and composer are included in the ubuntu-latest image used as the virtual environment by Github actions, as per the doc