GitHub action to release to Galaxy

GitHub action to release to Galaxy

GitHub Actions is an approach to offering CI, using other peoples actions from the GitHub Action Marketplace.

I’m using 2 actions to:

1. test the role using Molecule
2. release the role to Galaxy

GitHub is offering 20 concurrent builds which is quite a lot, more than Travis’s limit of 5. The build could be 4 times faster. Faster CI, happier developers. ;-)

Here are a few examples. First; just release to Galaxy, no testing includes. (Not a smart idea)

---
name: GitHub Action

on:
  - push

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: galaxy
        uses: buluma/galaxy-action@master
        with:
          galaxy_api_key: "$"

As you can see, 2 actions are used, checkout which gets the code and galaxy-action to push the role to Galaxy. Galaxy does lint-testing, but not functional testing. You can use the molecule-action to do that.

---
name: GitHub Action

on:
  - push

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          path: "$"
      - name: molecule
        uses: buluma/molecule-action@1.0.0
        with:
          image: "$"
  release:
    needs:
      - test
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: galaxy
        uses: buluma/galaxy-action@master
        with:
          galaxy_api_key: $

The build is split in 2 parts now; test and release and release needs test to be done. You can also see that checkout is now called with a path which allows Molecule to find itself. (ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH: $ephemeral_directory/roles/:$project_directory/../)

Finally you can include a matrix to build with a matrix of variables set.

---
name: GitHub Action

on:
  - push

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        image:
          - alpine
          - amazonlinux
          - debian
          - centos
          - fedora
          - opensuse
          - ubuntu
    steps:
      - name: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          path: "$"
      - name: molecule
        uses: buluma/molecule-action@1.0.0
        with:
          image: $
  release:
    needs:
      - test
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: galaxy
        uses: buluma/galaxy-action@master
        with:
          galaxy_api_key: $

Now your role is tested on the list of images specified.

Hope these actions make it easier to develop, test and release your roles, if you find problems, please make an issue for either the molecule or galaxy action.