Common GitHub Action Workflows & Actions

Here are shared GitHub Action actions and workflows that can be used for build and deploy!

Workflows

Workflows are defined in .github/workflows/ and can be used to automate tasks such as building, testing, packaging, and deploying code.

Helpers

These are helper workflows that can be used to simplify other workflows. Examples include workflows for finding changes in Terraform or running Terraform plan.

Build and Test

Workflows prefixed with build and test are meant to simplify the process of building and testing code.

Package

Workflows prefixed with package are meant to simplify the process of packaging code. Packaging workflows depend on build and test workflows, so they should be run after those workflows.

Packaging in pull requests need to use actions/checkout with the PR head commit sha. This way, the correct tag will exist for the deploy stage.

Deploy

Workflows prefixed with deploy are meant to simplify the process of deploying code.

There is an own workflow for deploying to "Test" in branches. It will need to use actions/checkout with the PR head commit sha, so that the correct code is deployed.

Note on Pull Requests

In pull requests, the default Git sha being used is a temporary merge commit sha (e.g. in for actions/checkout). In workflows meant to be run in pull requests, we want to use the head commit sha of the pull request instead. Examples include, building in node for static files, deployments of branches and running Terraform plan.