GitHub Actions
Automate Updatecli with GitHub Action
Description
Updatecli is better when executed regularly so let see how GitHub Action becomes handy.
Important | Environment variable starting with GITHUB_ are reserved by GitHub Action |
Parameter
command
Specify updatecli command, default value set to apply.
Required: false
flags
Specify updatecli command flags, default value set to --config ./updatecli/updatecli.d --values updatecli/values.yaml.
Required: false
Example
The current example is inspired from the repository jenkins-infra/jenkins-infra.
Once you have your update strategy configuration in the directory ./updatecli/updatecli.d, then you need following files in order to run updatecli from Github Action.
updatecli/values.yaml
github:
user: "GitHub Actions"
email: "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
username: "github-actions"
token: "UPDATECLI_GITHUB_TOKEN".github/workflows/updatecli.yaml
name: updatecli
on:
workflow_dispatch:
schedule:
# * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string
# Run once a day
- cron: '0 0 * * *'
jobs:
updatecli:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Diff
uses: updatecli/updatecli-action@v1
with:
command: diff
flags: "--config ./updatecli/updatecli.d --values updatecli/values.yaml"
env:
UPDATECLI_GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Apply
uses: updatecli/updatecli-action@v1
with:
flags: "--config ./updatecli/updatecli.d --values updatecli/values.yaml"
env:
UPDATECLI_GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}