Introduction¶

Overview¶

[1] Problem: What are the context metadata.

To debug or see the contexts of any block in GitHub Actions, can use this steps to verify.

Add step in yaml like below

- name: Dump GitHub context
env:
    GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}
run: |
    echo "$GITHUB_CONTEXT"

Contexts of GitHub Actions: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/contexts

[2] Problem: How to check the step status multiple.

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57850553/github-actions-check-steps-status

Avoid using continue-on-error:true because it will yield the different outputs and the metadata.

Ref: https://github.com/community/community/discussions/15452

[3] Problem: How to configuration the Slack Messages

a) We are using the GH Action from Marketplace: https://github.com/slackapi/slack-github-action

It's implement this API: https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage

b) Scope for Bot:

Permission	Description
app_mentions:read	View messages that directly mention in conversations that the app is in
channels:history	View messages and other content in public channel has been added to
channels:read	View basic information about public channels in a workspace
chat:write	Send messages as
chat:write.customize	Send messages as with a customized username and avatar
chat:write.public	Send messages to channels isn't a member of
files:read	View files shared in channels and conversation has been added to
files:write	Upload, edit, and delete files as
incoming-webhook	Post messages to specific channels in Slack
links:read	View URLs in messages
links:write	Show previews of URLs in messages

c) For mention users: Following this docs Formatting text for app surfaces

[4] Diffent output check bash scripts for true false value.

See the examples from [True False Bash Examples]

CICD Process: https://docs.github.com/actions/automating-builds-and-tests/building-and-testing-nodejs-or-python?langId=py