#github-actions (2020-12)

Discussions related to GitHub Actions

2020-12-11

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
I need manual approvers for GitHub Actions!!!! And I got them now :) | Azure DevOps Blogattachment image

I love GitHub Actions, but holy moly, I really want manual approvers before I deploy into an environment!!!! My typical workflow would send my pull request to a dynamically provisioned PR specific staging environment and then to teststaging production. And I totally need manual approvers between environments!

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Anyone have the signup link for the beta?

I need manual approvers for GitHub Actions!!!! And I got them now :) | Azure DevOps Blogattachment image

I love GitHub Actions, but holy moly, I really want manual approvers before I deploy into an environment!!!! My typical workflow would send my pull request to a dynamically provisioned PR specific staging environment and then to teststaging production. And I totally need manual approvers between environments!

ollynevard avatar
ollynevard

I’m keen to test out this new feature.

They also announced auto-merging PRs. I don’t know of that makes your use of mergify redundant now? https://youtu.be/AiWjanAdD3s?t=380

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

@Jeremy G (Cloud Posse) essh

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

(mergify is pretty powerful - I would be surprised if their implementation is as powerful)

Jeremy G (Cloud Posse) avatar
Jeremy G (Cloud Posse)
06:41:57 PM

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2020-12-18

Darren Cunningham avatar
Darren Cunningham

It seems like it’s a lot easier to copy and paste workflows and make subtle changes rather than try to parameterize workflows by trigger…or am I missing something?

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

It depends on what scale you need to manage the workflows

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
Actions: Centrally managed workflow templates · Issue #98 · github/roadmap

Summary To encourage best practices and consistency, this feature enables you to provide centrally managed workflows across multiple repositories in your organization. This feature includes: Abilit…

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I very much look forward to this

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

So I would not invest too much in anything else

Darren Cunningham avatar
Darren Cunningham

copy and paste is enough for me until that comes out - just wanted to make sure that I wasn’t overlooking something in the meantime

2020-12-19

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