👻 force npm9 during image build (#1781)

Ever since the build container we use [1][2] updated to use `npm@10`,
the image builder github action has encountered a number of problems.
The first was solved with #1746. The second more random problem has been
with network connections erroring out when installing dependencies.

To work around the network and nofiles errors:
  1. enforce the use of `npm@9`
  2. pin the Dockerfile base images to specific version tags;
    builder at `:1-88`, and runtime at `:1-93`

Additional solutions:
  - Add the force to `npm@9` directly in the Dockerfile for use in all
    circumstances
  - Find a way to use something like verdaccio to proxy/mirror the npmjs
    repo during the build so npmjs fetches can be pooled across the parallel
    image builds

[1] registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/nodejs-18:latest
[2] https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/ubi9/nodejs-18/62e8e7ed22d1d3c2dfe2ca01

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Signed-off-by: Scott J Dickerson <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/ci-repo.yml

@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ jobs:
           node-version: ${{ env.node-version }}
           cache: "npm"
 
+      - name: Force install npm@9 to match Dockerfile build container ubi9/nodejs-18:1-88
+        run: npm install -g npm@9
+
       - name: Verify package-lock.json
         run: ./scripts/verify_lock.mjs
 

.github/workflows/image-build.yaml

@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   push:
     branches:
-      - 'main'
-      - 'release-*'
+      - "main"
+      - "release-*"
     tags:
-      - 'v*'
+      - "v*"
 
 concurrency:
   group: build-${{ github.ref }}
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ jobs:
       image_name: "tackle2-ui"
       containerfile: "./Dockerfile"
       architectures: '[ "amd64", "arm64", "ppc64le", "s390x" ]'
+      # 2023-03-19: currently needed for npm@10
       extra-args: "--ulimit nofile=4096:4096"
     secrets:
       registry_username: ${{ secrets.QUAY_PUBLISH_ROBOT }}

Dockerfile

@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
+# NOTE: Since the `:latest` tag can have npm version changes, we are using
+#       a specific version tag. Container build errors have come up locally
+#       and via github action workflow when `:latest` is updated.
+#
+# Image info: https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/ubi9/nodejs-18/62e8e7ed22d1d3c2dfe2ca01
+# Relevant PRs:
+#   - https://github.com/konveyor/tackle2-ui/pull/1746
+#   - https://github.com/konveyor/tackle2-ui/pull/1781
+
 # Builder image
-FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/nodejs-18:latest as builder
+FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/nodejs-18:1-88 as builder
 
 USER 1001
 COPY --chown=1001 . .
 RUN npm clean-install --ignore-scripts && npm run build && npm run dist
 
 # Runner image
-FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/nodejs-18-minimal:latest
+FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/nodejs-18-minimal:1-93
 
 # Add ps package to allow liveness probe for k8s cluster
 # Add tar package to allow copying files with kubectl scp

package.json

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
   ],
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=18.14.2",
-    "npm": ">=9.5.0"
+    "npm": "^9.5.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@rollup/plugin-commonjs": "^25.0.7",