Github Action to unify and centralize calculating deployment names for all github actions.
To prevent every author of every application that uses github actions, to copy the line where we calculate the deployment name across several files, we decided to use a centralized approach, so all applications will work with the same pattern of deployment names, no matter what stack they're written in.
Basic:
- uses: local-ch/calculate-deployment-name-action@v2
id: calculate-deployment-name
with:
app: ${{github.event.repository.name}}
branch: ${{ github.head_ref }}This action export DEPLOYMENT_NAME as variable, and could be used anywhere as any other variable with $DEPLOYMENT_NAME
Because we have cases like customer-apps where we have multiple apps needed to be deployed and their deployment name has to be calculated in same job, there is option to use output of step where you calculate deployment name.
Example: ${{steps.step_id.outputs.name}}, or if you had action defined like in top example, then you type ${{steps.calculate-deployment-name.outputs.name}}, because step_id is calculate-deployment-name