GitHub Actions Demo #15
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| name: GitHub Actions Demo | |
| on: | |
| #push: | |
| #push was used to demonstrate what triggered the workflow in the last demo -- a push to Git | |
| #if push: is uncommented, any push to this repo will trigger it, so it is commented out | |
| #until we intend to have it run on a push to this repo. | |
| #repository_dispatch is used to manually trigger the workflow | |
| #when we have the type run_my_workflow. This is a custom made-up type shown in Neil's course . | |
| repository_dispatch: | |
| types: [run_my_workflow] | |
| # workflow_dispatch: will make the Run Workflow button appear, this allows running | |
| # manually within github. | |
| workflow_dispatch: | |
| jobs: | |
| Example-Actions-Job: | |
| name: Exploring GitHub Actions | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | |
| steps: | |
| # This code is for a later step using this file. | |
| # The file is being referenced during a review of modules 2,3 and 4 of the course | |
| # ${{}} is what tells github that this is an expression that needs to be evaluated, | |
| # and not a string that needs to be printed. | |
| # This github object is called a context: github.event.client_payload.mydata | |
| # A context is a collection of properties about the environment or object that it represents. | |
| # The line below is commented out until clip Demo External Triggers of module Exploring | |
| # GitHub Actions Workflows | |
| # *** 'run' operates the shell being used. ubuntu-latest will use Bash, the default Linux shell. | |
| - run: echo "Payload field is ${{ github.event.client_payload.mydata}}" | |
| # Display the event that tribgered the workflow | |
| - run: echo "The job was triggered by a ${{ github.event_name }} event." | |
| # Runner Information | |
| - run: echo "This job is now running on a ${{ runner.os }} server hosted at GitHub." | |
| # Information about the repository and branch | |
| - run: echo "The name of your branch is ${{ github.ref }} and your repository is ${{ github.repository }}." | |
| # Use action located in https://github.com/actions | |
| - name: Check out repository code | |
| # uses keyword tells github this is an action and where the code for it is stored | |
| # it is in the actions repo and is checkout@v2 | |
| uses: actions/checkout@v2 | |
| - run: echo "The ${{ github.repository }} repository has been cloned to the runner." | |
| - run: echo "Your repository has been copied to the path ${{ github.workspace }} on the runner." | |
| - run: echo "The workflow is now ready to test your code on the runner." | |
| - name: conditional step when event name is pull request | |
| # here we use context information to make logical decisions | |
| if: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }} | |
| run: echo "This event is a pull request" | |
| - name: List files in the repository | |
| run: | |
| ls ${{ github.workspace }} | |
| - name: Setup dotnet on runner | |
| uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1 | |
| # params are passed to the runner using the with keyword | |
| with: | |
| dotnet-version: '3.x' | |
| - name: Display dotnet version | |
| run: dotnet --version | |
| - run: echo "The preinstalled tools are located here on the runner ${{ runner.tool_cache }}." | |
| - name: List files in tool cache | |
| # each runner has certain tools preconfiged for a runner and these can be listed out. | |
| run: | |
| ls ${{ runner.tool_cache }} | |
| # the job context gives us info about the current job. | |
| - run: echo "This job's status is ${{ job.status }}" | |
| Second-Job: | |
| name: The second job runnong on another runner | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | |
| needs: Example-Actions-Job | |
| steps: | |
| - run: echo "This job is now runnong on a ${{ runner.os }} server hosted by GitHub." | |