workflow-tools¶

CLI tools for GitHub Actions.

Automate writing GitHub workflow configs with a generator tool
Automate setting GitHub secrets for repositories
Integrate the tools into your pipeline for setting up new microservices

Rationale¶

Microservice architecture may have dozens and dozens of lookalikes services that require similar CI/CD workflows. With infrastructure as code approach taken by the GitHub Actions, why not using workflows generation? Provisioning repository for a new microservice may also be automated. This is where workflow-tools come in handy.

Examples¶

Let’s set GitHub Secrets for a repository. First, get a personal access token in GitHub settings. Then set up a secret using workflow-tools:

workflow_secret --owner=anna-money --repo=workflow-tools \
  --token="YOUR-PERSONAL-ACCESS-TOKEN" \
  update --key=MY_SECRET_KEY --value=MY_VALUE

Now let’s use a fragment of Jinja2 template for a GitHub Actions workflow to generate resulting config:

WORKFLOW_RUNNER_VERSION=ubuntu-18.04 WORKFLOW_PYTHON27=2.7 WORKFLOW_PYTHON37=3.7 \
workflow_generator
# Press Enter to start pasting Jinja2 workflow template into stdin
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: [[ workflow.runner_version ]]
    strategy:
      matrix:
        python:
          - [[ workflow.python27 ]]
          - [[ workflow.python37 ]]
# Press Ctrl+D to render resulting workflow
# For real workflow templates use reading/writing from/to a file, load variables from envfile
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
    strategy:
      matrix:
        python:
          - 2.7
          - 3.7

See Examples for a detailed tour on using workflow-tools in the real world.

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