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GitHub Actions Cookbook

You're reading from   GitHub Actions Cookbook A practical guide to automating repetitive tasks and streamlining your development process

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468944
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Kaufmann Michael Kaufmann
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: GitHub Actions Workflows FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Authoring and Debugging Workflows 3. Chapter 3: Building GitHub Actions 4. Chapter 4: The Workflow Runtime 5. Chapter 5: Automate Tasks in GitHub with GitHub Actions 6. Chapter 6: Build and Validate Your Code 7. Chapter 7: Release Your Software with GitHub Actions 8. Index 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Linting workflows

In this recipe, we’ll add a linting action that will check the workflow and give feedback directly in the pull request.

Getting ready…

Open the workflow file in the branch that you have for the open pull request. Do not merge the changes yet.

How to do it…

  1. Go to the marketplace and search for the actionlint. The action we are looking for is from devops-actions. The action needs to access the workflow files, meaning you have to check out the repository using the checkout action first. Add the following two steps to the end of the job:
    - uses: actions/[email protected]
    - uses: devops-actions/[email protected]
  2. As we want the action to annotate errors in pull requests, we have to give the workflow write access to pull requests. I’ll explain later how this works. For now, just add a section permissions to the job like this:
    jobs:
      job1:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        permissions...
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