gha-create-repo-secret-env's Introduction

GitHub Action - Secret creation/updation

This action is made for creating and updating GitHub secrets for a specific environment.

Usage

The action is quite simple and can be used for any GitHub organization, the main need is an [Personal Access Token] with the necessary permissions.

When something go wrong the action will throw an error and break the workflow.

Example workflow

name: My Workflow
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: Run action

      uses: <orgnization>/gha-create-repo-secret-for-env@main
      with:
        GitHubToken: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
        SecretName: "secret-name"
        SecretValue: "secret-value"
        Environment: "dev"
        Organization: "<orgnization>"
        Repository: "repository name"

Inputs

Input	Description
`GitHubToken`	Personal access token from GitHub - it must have permission to create projects in the requested organization
`SecretName`	Secret name that needs to be added to a specific reposistpory within an environment
`SecretValue`	Secret value that needs to be created/updated to a specific reposistpory within an environment
`Environment`	Environment to which the secret needs to be created/updated
`Organization`	Organization where to create the environments
`Repository`	Repository name where the environment secret needs to be created/updated

Examples

Using the optional input

This is how to use the optional input.

    uses: ./gha-create-repo-secret-for-env/
    with:
      GitHubToken: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
      SecretName: "ClientID"
      SecretValue: "ClientID_Value"
      Environment: "dev"
      Organization: "<orgnization>"
      Repository: "npet-testingsolutionrepo"

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