Github Release

kind: githubRelease

source	condition	target
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condition

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Description

source

The GitHub Release "source" retrieves the latest release version sorted by release date. If no release can be found then we fallback to release tags sorted on tag date creation. It’s important to notice that both information are mutually exclusive.

Parameter

Name	Type	Description
key	string	“key” defines the GitHub release information we are looking for. It accepts one of the following inputs: “name”: returns the “latest” tag name “hash”: returns the commit associated with the latest tag name “title”: returns the latest release title accepted values: taghash tagname title hash (deprecated) name (deprecated) default: ’tagname' compatible: source condition
owner	string	owner defines repository owner to interact with. required: true compatible: source condition
repository	string	repository defines the repository name to interact with. required: true compatible: source condition
tag	string	tag allows to check for a specific release tag, release tag hash, or release title depending on a the parameter key. compatible: condition default: source input
token	string	token defines the GitHub personal access token used to authenticate with. more information on https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/managing-your-personal-access-tokens required: true compatible: source condition
typefilter	object	typeFilter specifies the GitHub Release type to retrieve before applying the versionfilter rule default: draft: false prerelease: false release: true latest: false compatible: source condition
draft	boolean	“Draft” enable/disable GitHub draft release
latest	boolean	“Latest” if set to true will only filter the release flag as latest.
prerelease	boolean	“PreRelease” enable/disable GitHub PreRelease
release	boolean	“Release” enable/disable GitHub release
url	string	URL defines the default github url in case of GitHub enterprise. default: https://github.com compatible: source condition
username	string	username defines the username used to authenticate with GitHub API. compatible: source condition
versionfilter	object	versionFilter provides parameters to specify version pattern and its type like regex, semver, or just latest. default: latest compatible: source
kind	string	specifies the version kind such as semver, regex, or latest
pattern	string	specifies the version pattern according the version kind for semver, it is a semver constraint for regex, it is a regex pattern for time, it is a date format
regex	string	specifies the regex pattern, used for regex/semver and regex/time. Output of the first capture group will be used.
strict	boolean	strict enforce strict versioning rule. Only used for semantic versioning at this time

Version Filter

versionFilter allows to specify the kind of version retrieved from a resource and its version pattern. Default value is "latest" as we want to retrieve the newest version from a resource.

latest

If kind is set to latest then no need to specify the patter as we gonna retrieve the newest version from the resource.

Example

sources:
  kubectl:
    kind: githubRelease
    spec:
      owner: "kubernetes"
      repository: "kubectl"
      token: "{{ requiredEnv .github.token }}"
      username: "john"
      versionFilter:
        kind: latest
    transformers:
      - trimPrefix: "kubernetes-"

Return the latest Github release and remove "kubernetes-" from it.

Lex

If the kind is set to lex then Updatecli returns the latest version sorted lexicographically.

Sorting versions lexicographically means arranging them based on their lexicographic order, which is essentially alphabetical order as used in dictionaries, but applied to version strings.

For example, in lexicographic order:

"1.10" comes before "1.2", because it compares character by character:
    Compare "1" vs. "1" → equal.
    Compare "." vs "." → equal.
    Compare "1" vs. "2" → "1" is smaller, so "1.10" < "1.2".

This ordering does not account for numerical values of version components. For meaningful version comparisons, semantic versioning is typically preferred, where "1.2" < "1.10" because "2" is numerically smaller than "10".

Example

sources:
  ubuntu-focal:
    name: Get latest ubuntu focal docker image tag using regex/time versionfilter
    kind: dockerimage
    spec:
      image: ubuntu
      versionfilter:
        kind: lex

regex

If versionFilter.kind is set to regex then we can use versionFilter.pattern to specify a regular expression to return the newest version returned from a resource matching the regex If no versionFilter.pattern is provided then it uses '.*' which return the newest version

sources:
  kubectl:
    kind: githubRelease
    spec:
      owner: "kubernetes"
      repository: "kubectl"
      token: "{{ requiredEnv .github.token }}"
      username: "john"
      versionFilter:
        kind: regex
        pattern: "kubernetes-1.(\\d*).(\\d*)$"
    transformers:
      - trimPrefix: "kubernetes-"

⇒ Return the newest kubectl version matching pattern "kubernetes-1.(\\d*).(\\d*)$" and remove "kubernetes-" from it

semver

If versionFilter.kind is set to semver then we can use versionFilter.pattern to specify version pattern as explained here. In the process we also sort. If no versionFilter.pattern is provided then it fallback to '*' which return the newest version. If a version doesn’t respect semantic versioning, then it’s not the value is just ignored.

Remark

In the process we drop any characters not respecting semantic version like in this version "v1.0.0", we drop the "v" but we can added it back using transformers.

Example

  jenkins-wiki-exporter:
    kind: githubRelease
    spec:
      owner: "jenkins-infra"
      repository: "jenkins-wiki-exporter"
      token: "{{ requiredEnv .github.token }}"
      username: "john"
      versionFilter:
        kind: semver
        pattern: "~1.10"

⇒ Return the version "v1.10.3"

regex/semver

If versionFilter.kind is set to regex/semver then we can use versionFilter.regex to specify a regular expression to extract version numbers. The regular expression should return the semantic version in the first capturing group. We can then use versionFilter.pattern to specify version pattern as explained here. In the process we also sort. If no versionFilter.pattern is provided then it fallback to '*' which return the newest version. If a extracted version doesn’t respect semantic versioning, then it’s not the value is just ignored.

Example

sources:
  default:
    name: Get latest version
    kind: githubrelease
    spec:
      owner: yarnpkg
      repository: berry
      token: '{{ requiredEnv "GITHUB_TOKEN" }}'
      versionfilter:
        kind: regex/semver
        regex: "@yarnpkg/cli/(\\d*\\.\\d*\\.\\d*)"

⇒ Return the version "4.5.3"

regex/time

If versionFilter.kind is set to regex/time then we can use versionFilter.regex to specify a regular expression to extract dates. The regular expression should return the date in the first capturing group. We can then use versionFilter.pattern to specify date pattern as explained here. In the process we also sort. If no versionFilter.pattern is provided then it fallback to '2006-01-02' which return the newest version using date format YYYY-MM-DD. If a extracted date doesn’t match the date pattern, then it’s not the value is just ignored.

To define your own format/pattern, write down what the reference time would look like formatted your way; The model is to demonstrate what the reference time looks like so that the Format and Parse methods can apply the same transformation to a general time value.

Here is a summary of the components of a layout string. Each element shows by example the formatting of an element of the reference time. Only these values are recognized. Text in the layout string that is not recognized as part of the reference time is echoed verbatim during Format and expected to appear verbatim in the input to Parse.

Year: "2006" "06"
Month: "Jan" "January" "01" "1"
Day of the week: "Mon" "Monday"
Day of the month: "2" "_2" "02"
Day of the year: "__2" "002"
Hour: "15" "3" "03" (PM or AM)
Minute: "4" "04"
Second: "5" "05"
AM/PM mark: "PM"

You can get inspiration from the following examples

Pattern

Example

2006-01-02

2021-01-02 (YYYY-MM-DD)

20060102

20210102 (YYYYMMDD)

20060201

20260201 (YYYYDDMM)

Example

sources:
  ubuntu-focal:
    name: Get latest ubuntu focal docker image tag using regex/time versionfilter
    kind: dockerimage
    spec:
      image: ubuntu
      versionfilter:
        kind: 'regex/time'
        regex: '^focal-(\d*)$'
        pattern: "20060102"

time

If versionFilter.kind is set to time then we can use versionFilter.pattern to specify date pattern as explained here. In the process we also sort. If no versionFilter.pattern is provided then it fallback to '2006-01-02' which return the newest version using date format YYYY-MM-DD. Please note date time not matching the pattern will be ignored.

Year: "2006" "06"
Month: "Jan" "January" "01" "1"
Day of the week: "Mon" "Monday"
Day of the month: "2" "_2" "02"
Day of the year: "__2" "002"
Hour: "15" "3" "03" (PM or AM)
Minute: "4" "04"
Second: "5" "05"
AM/PM mark: "PM"

You can get inspiration from the following examples

Pattern

Example

2006-01-02

2021-01-02 (YYYY-MM-DD)

20060102

20210102 (YYYYMMDD)

20060201

20260201 (YYYYDDMM)

Example

sources:
  ubuntu:
    name: Get latest ubuntu docker image tag using time versionfilter
    kind: dockerimage
    spec:
      image: ubuntu
      versionfilter:
        kind: 'time'
        pattern: "06.01"

Remark:

It’s considered a very bad practice to store credentials in an un-encrypted file. Consider using an environment variable to store the token.

# source.yaml
sources:
  lastRelease:
    kind: githubRelease
    spec:
      owner: "jenkins-infra"
      repository: "jenkins-wiki-exporter"
      token: "{{ requiredEnv "ENV_VARIABLE" }}"
      username: "john"
      versionFilter:
        kind: regexp
        pattern: "v1.10\.(.*)"

⇒ Return v1.10.3

Example

# updatecli.yaml
name: Github Release Example

# Scms defines Git repository configuration to interact with.
scms:
  default:
    kind: github
    spec:
      user: "updatecli"
      email: "updatecli@olblak.com"
      owner: "olblak"
      repository: "charts"
      token: '{{ requiredEnv "GITHUB_TOKEN" }}'
      username: "olblak"
      branch: "master"

# Sources are responsible for retrieving information from thirds location like GitHub releases.
sources:
  # Retrieve the "latest" Helm version using the Helm GitHub Release.
  helm:
    name: Get latest Helm release version
    kind: githubrelease
    spec:
      owner: "helm"
      repository: "helm"
      token: '{{ requiredEnv .github.token }}'
      username: olblak
      versionfilter:
        kind: latest

# Conditions are simple checks that need to pass before updating a target.
conditions:
  # The yaml plugin doesn't support advanced yamlpath syntax so when we need
  # to fetch information from an array, we want to be sure that the position is 
  # still relevant to the target
  keyExist:
    name: Update GitHub Action workflow
    kind: yaml
    scmid: default
    disablesourceinput: true
    spec:
      file: .github/workflows/helm.yaml
      key: .$jobs.release.steps[0].name
      value: Install Helm

# Targets define the state of files based on source information.
targets:
  # Ensure the Dockerfile arg HELM_VERSION is set to the latest Helm version retrieved by the source.
  dockerfile:
    name: Update Dockerfile ARG HELM_VERSION
    kind: dockerfile
    scmid: default
    sourceid: helm
    spec:
      file: docker/Dockerfile
      instruction:
        keyword: ARG
        matcher: HELM_VERSION

  # Ensure the GitHub workflow file is correctly set to the latest helm version retrieved from the source.
  ghWorkflow:
    name: Update GitHub Action workflow
    kind: yaml
    scmid: default
    sourceid: helm
    spec:
      file: .github/workflows/helm.yaml
      key: .$jobs.release.steps[0].with.version

actions:
  # If one of the two targets is modified, then we want to open a
  # pullrequest with the auto merge flag set to true and the label "helm"
  default:
    kind: github/pullrequest
    scmid: default
    title: 'Bump Helm version to {{ source "helm" }}'
    spec:
      automerge: true
      labels:
        - "helm"

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