You're reading from GitHub Actions Cookbook A practical guide to automating repetitive tasks and streamlining your development process

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835468944

Length 250 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Michael Kaufmann

Preface

1. Chapter 1: GitHub Actions Workflows

2. Chapter 2: Authoring and Debugging Workflows FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Building GitHub Actions

4. Chapter 4: The Workflow Runtime

5. Chapter 5: Automate Tasks in GitHub with GitHub Actions

6. Chapter 6: Build and Validate Your Code

7. Chapter 7: Release Your Software with GitHub Actions

8. Index

9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the GitHub CLI and GITHUB_TOKEN to access resources

In this recipe, we will parse the issue from the previous chapter and interact with the issue using the GitHub CLI in the workflow.

You will need the issue template from the previous chapter. You can create the workflow either in Visual Studio Code or directly in GitHub.

Create a new workflow .github/workflows/issue-ops.yml and name it issue-ops:
```
# Issue ops
name: issue-ops
```
Use the issues trigger for the workflow. Note that we are not using the created or edited events but rather labeled. This allows users to relabel issues when modifying the request:
```
on:
  issues:
    types: [labeled]
```
Add an issue-ops job:
```
jobs:
    issue-ops:
```
We only want to run this job for specific labels. Add a condition like the following to the job:
```
if: ${{ github.event.label.name == 'repo-request' }}
```
The job can run on the latest Ubuntu...