Deploying to DigitalOcean using github/action-doctl@v2 with docker-compose?

Question

I've a docker-compose.yml containing frontend, admin_frontend, backend, nginx images. I'd like to achieve that whenever I push to my github master branch then automatically build all the docker images defined in my docker-compose (as I have same settings etc. in there) file. After that push the images to my DigitalOcean Container Registry - so finally I can run the fresh deployed app on my droplet.

It's a part from my workflow file - but it seems like it doesn't build/(or push) the images from my docker-compose.

name: deploy app to digital ocean droplet

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  main-fe_build:
  admin-fe_build:
  main-be_build:
  main-fe_test:
  build_and_push:
    name: Build & Push
    needs: main-fe_test
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout the repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        
      - name: Create env file
        run: |
          touch .env
          echo "${{ secrets.SERVER_ENV_PROD }}" > .env
          cat .env
          
      - name: Build image
        run: docker compose -f docker-compose.yml build
        
      - name: Install doctl
        uses: digitalocean/action-doctl@v2
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          
      - name: Log in to DO Container Registry
        run: doctl registry login --expiry-seconds 600
        
      - name: Push image to DO Container Registry
        run: docker compose -f docker-compose.yml push
        
      - name: Deploy Stack
        uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
        with:
          host: ${{ secrets.HOST }}
          username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
          key: ${{ secrets.SSHKEY }}
          port: ${{ secrets.PORT }}
          script: |
            cd /root/apps/myapp
            ls

Attached a screenshot about the workflow. As you see build/push images took 0s:

Answer 1

You do not seem to have any deploy directive in the file. Instead of these:

  admin-fe_build:
  main-be_build:
  main-fe_test:
  build_and_push:

you would want to have a deploy: followed by targets…